# Soochi — Full Catalog > Complete catalog of 494 civic data sources, tools, organisations and research for public-interest work, updated 2026-09-15. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Canonical dataset: https://soochi.fyi/index.json Short overview: https://soochi.fyi/llms.txt ## Catalog Entries ### 4th Cross Labs - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/fourth-cross-labs - **Source URL**: https://fourthcross.tech/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Open-source hacker collective from Bengaluru building lightweight, self-hosted developer tools, communication platforms, and FOSS infrastructure - **Notes**: 4th Cross Labs is an open-source hacker collective rooted in the engineering team behind Zerodha. Named after 4th Cross street in JP Nagar, Bengaluru, where the team began hacking more than a decade ago, the collective develops and maintains production-grade tools designed to run as lightweight, self-hostable applications and single binaries. Projects emerge from real operational infrastructure needs and personal experiments before being released as freely licensed public software. Its ecosystem includes widely adopted digital infrastructure such as Listmonk (a high-performance self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager), Libredesk (a single-binary open-source support desk), Logchef (a ClickHouse log analytics interface), Dungbeetle (an asynchronous distributed SQL read job queue), and Whatomate (an open-source WhatsApp communication system). For non-profits, civic tech initiatives, and public-interest teams that require reliable digital infrastructure without recurring per-seat SaaS costs or proprietary lock-in, 4th Cross Labs provides modular, self-contained alternatives. ### A Rocha India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/a-rocha-india - **Source URL**: https://www.arocha.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Education - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Conservation of nature and wildlife through research, education, and sustainability. - **Notes**: A Rocha India's Primary Response Team is a structured first-response arrangement with forest authorities to reduce human-elephant conflict. It runs environmental education programmes, health and hygiene camps for conflict-prone communities, and builds conservation support through community-based stewardship. ### ACT Capital Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/act-capital-foundation - **Source URL**: https://actgrants.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Philanthropy, Economy, Technology - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Venture philanthropy providing early-stage funding to social entrepreneurs. - **Notes**: ACT Capital Foundation provides early-stage grants and capacity support to social entrepreneurs working on systemic change. Its venture philanthropy model combines grant capital with mentorship and strategic support, treating social enterprises as investable vehicles for impact rather than charity recipients. ### Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/aga-khan-rural-support-programme-india - **Source URL**: https://www.akrspindia.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Welfare, Environment, Labour - **Geography**: India, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Ahmedabad, Gujarat - **Summary**: Participatory development programmes for rural livelihoods and ecological regeneration. - **Notes**: AKRSPI delivers participatory rural development through village-level institutions, watershed development, water harvesting, and soil conservation. Part of the Aga Khan Development Network, it builds community federations that sustain local governance and natural resource management long after projects end. ### Agmarknet - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/agmarknet - **Source URL**: https://agmarknet.gov.in - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Agriculture, Economy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Daily wholesale prices and arrivals for agricultural commodities, reported from regulated markets across India - **Notes**: Mandi-level and daily, which makes it one of the few Indian price series granular enough to see local shocks rather than national averages. ### Agriculture Census of India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/agriculture-census - **Source URL**: https://agcensus.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Agriculture, Land, Gender - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Five-yearly statistics on operational holdings, holding size, land use, irrigation, tenancy and farmer characteristics - **Notes**: Conducted roughly every five years, the Agriculture Census describes operational holdings rather than ownership parcels. It provides distributions by holding size, social group and sex of holder, alongside operated area, tenancy, land use, irrigation and cropping characteristics at national, state and finer levels where tables are released. An operational holding can combine multiple plots and may differ from the legal owner or cadastral parcel, which matters when interpreting land concentration. The newest portal also supports fieldwork and progress monitoring, while final tables can arrive well after the reference year. Check whether a result is a provisional dashboard count or a published census table. ### AI for Public Policy Directory - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ai-for-public-policy-directory - **Source URL**: https://aipublicpolicy.org/ - **Kind**: Directory - **Topics**: Governance, Technology, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Community-curated directory of AI tools, dashboards and open projects built for Indian public-policy research and practice - **Notes**: The directory collects policy-facing AI tools and civic applications that are otherwise scattered across personal repositories and institutional websites. Its listings include parliamentary trackers, budget visualisations, regulation monitors, analytical tools and citizen-facing projects, with search and topic filters running entirely in the browser. The catalogue is maintained as community-editable YAML and automatically checks new submissions for missing fields, bad links and duplicates. The repository describes itself as open source but does not currently provide a recognised licence file, so Soochi records the licensing status as unclear. ### AI4Bharat - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ai4bharat - **Source URL**: https://ai4bharat.iitm.ac.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Technology, Culture & heritage, Education - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source research lab at IIT Madras building datasets, machine translation engines, and speech models for 22 Indian languages - **Notes**: AI4Bharat is an open-source research initiative based at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) dedicated to developing state-of-the-art AI technology and open datasets for Indian languages. It builds foundational language models, speech-to-text engines, text-to-speech pipelines, and benchmark evaluation suites covering 22 scheduled Indian languages. Its major releases include IndicTrans2 (a multilingual neural machine translation engine across all 22 Indian languages), IndicWav2Vec, and IndicTTS, all published under permissive open-source licences. AI4Bharat's datasets and models serve as core digital public infrastructure powering national translation initiatives, judicial multilingual tools, and grassroots civic technology. ### AiKosh - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/aikosh - **Source URL**: https://aikosh.indiaai.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Technology, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: IndiaAI's national AI platform — 358+ curated datasets, 220+ models including Indic language LLMs, toolkits, and free GPU compute via AIRAWAT supercomputer - **Notes**: AiKosh is the Government of India's national platform for AI resources, launched under the IndiaAI Mission. It hosts 358+ curated datasets spanning sector-agnostic and domain-specific categories, 220+ AI models including major Indic language models (Sarvam, BharatGen, AI4Bharat's IndicTrans2, Bhashini speech models, Microsoft Phi series), and free GPU compute powered by AIRAWAT — India's AI supercomputer. The platform also provides a model tryout feature (run models directly in the browser), competitions, toolkits, and sector-specific exploration (agriculture, healthcare, governance, energy). For Indian researchers and civic technologists, AiKosh makes compute and pre-trained models accessible without commercial cloud costs — a significant public good for the Indic language AI ecosystem. Free registration required for GPU access. ### Aikyam Fund - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/aikyam-fund - **Source URL**: https://aikyamhq.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Philanthropy, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Summary**: Strengthening early-stage social impact organisations by making fundraising, team-building, and capacity development more accessible to changemakers - **Notes**: Aikyam works with early-stage organisations working on urgent challenges faced by the planet and underserved communities. Through its Aikyam Fellows programme, it makes fundraising, team and board building, and capacity development more accessible to changemakers. Samagata Foundation backs Aikyam to strengthen the front line of social change from the ground up. ### Akshayakalpa / Akshayakalpa Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/akshayakalpa-akshayakalpa-foundation - **Source URL**: https://akshayakalpa.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Farmer-entrepreneurship, regenerative farming, and rural livelihoods rooted in organic dairy systems. - **Notes**: Akshayakalpa turns organic dairy into a farmer-entrepreneurship system spanning farm training, closed-loop production, processing infrastructure, and direct-to-consumer products. Its co-existence farming system centres on self-sustaining farms, methane generation from dung, and closed-loop soil-fodder systems. ### Alar - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/alar - **Source URL**: https://alar.ink/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Technology, Education - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Open licence (ODbL) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: V. Krishna's open-source Kannada-English dictionary — 247K entries with full-text search, built by Zerodha's tech team and freely accessible to all - **Notes**: Alar (ಅಲರ್, meaning "to blossom") is a comprehensive open-source Kannada-English dictionary built on the work of lexicographer V. Krishna. With 247,674 English entries and 156,672 Kannada entries, it is the most extensive freely accessible bilingual dictionary for Kannada. The project was built by Zerodha's technology team and released as open data under the Open Database Licence (ODbL), with the full dataset available on GitHub. The web interface provides fast full-text search in both directions. For researchers, Alar is a foundational language resource — alongside Sanchaya's literary tools and Indic Digital Archive Foundation's Olam (Malayalam dictionary), it represents the growing ecosystem of open-source Indian language infrastructure built by the tech community. ### Alaveteli - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/alaveteli - **Source URL**: https://alaveteli.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Transparency, Governance, Rights, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0-or-later) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source Freedom of Information platform by mySociety that powers public Right to Information request portals across 25+ countries - **Notes**: Alaveteli is an open-source software platform developed by mySociety to help citizens, journalists, and advocacy groups make and track Freedom of Information (FOI) and Right to Information (RTI) requests to public authorities. The platform makes the entire request lifecycle public: questions, institutional replies, attached documents, and appeals are automatically indexed and published online as a searchable public archive. Alaveteli powers major national transparency sites worldwide (such as WhatDoTheyKnow in the UK) and includes built-in workflows for response deadline tracking, public authority directory management, and redaction. ### Aleph - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/aleph - **Source URL**: https://docs.aleph.occrp.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Transparency, Law & policing, Technology, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL-3.0-or-later) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source investigative data search and cross-referencing engine for tracking corruption, corporate registries, and leaked records - **Notes**: Aleph is an open-source data search, entity extraction, and cross-referencing platform developed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). It allows investigative reporters, civic watchdogs, and researchers to ingest millions of documents — PDFs, emails, corporate registries, sanction lists, and spreadsheets — and search across them with multilingual full-text indexing and optical character recognition (OCR). Aleph extracts structured entities (people, companies, bank accounts) into the FollowTheMoney data model, automatically flagging overlaps between leaked records, public asset disclosures, and international sanction databases. Non-profits and newsrooms can self-host Aleph securely to collaborate privately on sensitive investigation archives. ### All India Survey on Higher Education - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/aishe - **Source URL**: https://aishe.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Education, Gender - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual institution-level statistics on higher-education enrolment, teachers, courses, results, finance and infrastructure - **Notes**: AISHE is the national census-style survey of universities, colleges and stand-alone higher-education institutions. It records enrolment by programme and social category, teaching and non-teaching staff, examination results, facilities and finances, and publishes indicators such as gross enrolment ratio, gender parity and pupil–teacher ratio. The portal provides reports, downloadable tables and an interactive dashboard. Institutions report their own data, and coverage or classifications can change between rounds, so apparent year-to-year jumps should be checked against the report's institutional coverage and methodology. Pair it with UDISE+ for a broader view from school through higher education. ### Allmaps - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/allmaps - **Source URL**: https://allmaps.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL-3.0-or-later) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source web platform for georeferencing, curating, and overlaying high-resolution historical maps from digital library IIIF repositories - **Notes**: Allmaps is an open-source suite of web tools for georeferencing and viewing historical maps hosted on IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) servers. Built by Bert Spaan and supported by digital heritage institutions, it allows researchers to align scanned library maps with modern geographic coordinates directly in the browser without downloading or re-hosting massive image files. Allmaps stores georeferencing transformations as lightweight Web Annotations that can be warped and rendered on the fly in Leaflet, OpenLayers, MapLibre, or QGIS. It enables archives, cartographers, and urban historians to layer colonial survey sheets, antique plans, and historical estate maps over contemporary satellite imagery. ### ALT EFF - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/alt-eff - **Source URL**: https://alteff.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Media - **Geography**: India, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Climate action and awareness through the emotive power of cinema. - **Notes**: ALT EFF (All Living Things Environmental Film Festival) is India's dedicated environmental film festival. It screens climate and nature films across venues in India, using cinema to make environmental issues emotionally resonant and publicly accessible. The festival has grown into a year-round programme of screenings, workshops, and community events. ### Alternative Law Forum - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/alternative-law-forum - **Source URL**: https://altlawforum.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Law & policing, Rights, Gender, Caste - **Geography**: Karnataka, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Legal collective integrating legal practice with social justice, human rights, labour struggles, gender equity, and public interest research - **Notes**: The Alternative Law Forum (ALF) is a collective of lawyers, legal researchers, and activists based in Bengaluru, founded in 2000. ALF integrates legal practice with social justice struggles, providing legal defense and advocacy for marginalized groups including informal labour unions, sexual minorities, sex workers, and displaced communities. ALF conducts critical legal research, publishes policy briefs, and litigates on constitutional law, intellectual property and access to medicines, gender justice, urban governance, and freedom of expression. It views law not as a technical trade, but as a critical site of social struggle and democratic accountability. ### Annadana Soil and Seed Savers Network - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/annadana - **Source URL**: https://www.annadana-india.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Environment, Nutrition - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 2007 - **Summary**: Nonprofit conserving heirloom seeds and teaching regenerative, chemical-free agriculture through farms and farmer networks - **Notes**: Annadana is a registered nonprofit focused on conserving heirloom vegetable seeds, regenerating soils and sharing low-cost natural-farming practices. Its food-forest farms serve as learning and experimentation sites, while its seed banks, training and distribution work are intended to keep traditional, reproducible varieties in the hands of farmers and rural youth. This is the conservation and education network, not a conventional commercial seed catalogue. Its official website still contains substantial organisational material, but the site's security certificate was expired when this entry was checked. Soochi therefore marks it dormant until safe browser access is restored. ### Annual Survey of Industries - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/annual-survey-industries - **Source URL**: https://microdata.gov.in/NADA/index.php/catalog/ASI - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Labour, Energy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Factory-level data on employment, wages, inputs, output, value added, capital, energy use and industrial structure - **Notes**: The Annual Survey of Industries is India's principal source on the registered factory sector. Its public-use files and tables cover factories, workers and wages, fixed capital, working capital, materials, fuels, electricity, products, output and value added, with industry and state classifications suitable for studying manufacturing structure and productivity. ASI is not a census of every Indian enterprise: it covers factories within its statutory frame, while most informal and unregistered establishments are covered by separate enterprise surveys. Sampling schemes, NIC industry classifications and disclosure treatment vary across years. Use multiplier weights and current concordances rather than treating observed records as totals. ### AnyDoc - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/anydoc - **Source URL**: https://github.com/firecrawl/anydoc - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Convert Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF to clean Markdown — built in Rust with Node.js and Python bindings, 8K+ GitHub stars - **Notes**: AnyDoc is Firecrawl's open-source document parsing library, purpose-built to handle the messy, multi-format reality of real-world documents. It converts Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), Excel (.xlsx), OpenDocument (.odt/.ods/.odp), RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF files into clean, structured Markdown — preserving headings, lists, tables, and text formatting. Built in Rust for speed and reliability, with first-class Node.js and Python bindings. For Indian researchers and civic technologists, AnyDoc complements Tabula and LiteParse by covering the formats those tools don't: government data often arrives as .xlsx, .docx, or .pptx files, and AnyDoc turns all of them into the same clean text format for downstream processing. MIT-licensed, 8K+ GitHub stars, from the Firecrawl team. ### Apache Superset - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/apache-superset - **Source URL**: https://superset.apache.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Transparency - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Apache-2.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source data exploration and visualization platform for querying databases and building interactive, shareable public dashboards - **Notes**: Apache Superset is a modern, enterprise-ready open-source business intelligence and data exploration web application. It connects to virtually any SQL-speaking database or data warehouse (PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, BigQuery, DuckDB, Trino) and provides a no-code visual chart builder alongside a rich SQL IDE. For civic data initiatives, research institutes, and public policy think tanks, Superset provides a scalable platform to build interactive public data dashboards, embed interactive visualisations in websites, and manage granular role-based access controls over sensitive research datasets. ### Archival and Research Project (ARPO) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/archival-and-research-project-arpo - **Source URL**: https://www.arpo.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Media - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Summary**: Preserving and promoting Kerala's local culture and heritage through digital archiving, multimedia storytelling, research, and community engagement - **Notes**: ARPO (Archival and Research Project) is based in Kerala and works to preserve and promote local culture and heritage through digital archiving, multimedia storytelling, research, and community engagement. Its Earthlore project promotes fading tribal traditions and culture using music, videos, events, and informational content. Backed by Samagata Foundation. ### Arthan Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/arthan-foundation - **Source URL**: https://arthan.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Systems change initiatives to achieve the SDGs, with a focus on connecting talent to social impact. - **Notes**: Arthan Foundation aligns programme design with specific SDG targets and runs Arthan Careers, a talent marketplace connecting professionals with social sector organisations. It treats human capital as a leverage point for systems change. ### ASER Centre - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/aser-centre - **Source URL**: https://asercentre.org - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Runs the Annual Status of Education Report, a household survey measuring what rural Indian children can actually read and count - **Notes**: ASER (Annual Status of Education Report) is India's largest citizen-led household survey, reaching over 600,000 children across nearly every rural district. Unlike school-leaving exams, ASER tests basic reading and arithmetic — and the results, consistently sobering, have reshaped India's education policy debate for two decades. The survey is unusual in being conducted by volunteers (mostly college students) rather than professional enumerators, which gives it both scale and public engagement that top-down surveys lack. ASER Centre also runs the ASER-based assessment tools used by several state governments. If you need to know whether Indian children are actually learning — as opposed to just being enrolled — this is the indispensable source. ### ASReview - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/asreview - **Source URL**: https://asreview.nl/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Education, Health - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Apache-2.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source active-learning software that helps researchers screen large collections of papers for systematic reviews - **Notes**: ASReview uses active learning to prioritise the records most likely to be relevant during title and abstract screening. Reviewers label records as they work, and the model continually updates the order in which remaining material is presented, helping reduce repetitive screening in large evidence reviews. The project is coordinated from Utrecht University and documents its methods as open-source research software. It supports transparent review workflows and simulation for testing strategies, but it does not replace reviewer judgement: people still make every inclusion and exclusion decision. ### Association for Democratic Reforms - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/association-for-democratic-reforms - **Source URL**: https://adrindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Elections, Governance, Transparency, Law & policing - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit watchdog analyzing election affidavits, tracking political party finances, and litigating for electoral and governance transparency - **Notes**: The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) was founded in 1999 by a group of professors from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to improve governance and strengthen democracy. ADR spearheads National Election Watch, mobilizing state networks to analyze and disseminate background profiles, criminal cases, assets, and liabilities of election candidates. ADR's sustained public interest litigation led to landmark Supreme Court judgments making candidate disclosure mandatory (2002/2003), introducing the NOTA option (2013), and declaring the Electoral Bonds Scheme unconstitutional (2024). It regularly publishes reports on political donations, electoral trust funding, and assembly spending. ### ATREE - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/atree - **Source URL**: https://www.atree.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Land - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Environmental research, conservation, and socially just development across key landscapes. - **Notes**: ATREE (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment) publishes the India Biodiversity Portal, runs Community Conservation Centres, the Ecoinformatics Lab, and the Lantana Craft Centre. Its Academy for Conservation Science offers PhD, MSc, and certificate programmes, and its knowledge commons approach translates ecological research into usable planning frameworks. ### Avni - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/avni - **Source URL**: https://avniproject.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Health, Education, Welfare, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL v3) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source field service and data collection for community programmes — designed for Indian nonprofits with offline-first mobile apps and longitudinal tracking - **Notes**: Avni is an open-source platform built specifically for Indian nonprofits running community programmes. It combines a mobile app for field workers (offline-first, works on low-end Android phones), a web app for programme managers to design workflows and view dashboards, and a backend that handles data synchronisation. Unlike generic data collection tools, Avni is designed for longitudinal tracking — following the same beneficiary over time through health visits, educational interventions, or livelihood support. It supports multiple languages including Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, and other Indian languages. Used by organisations across health (TB, maternal health), education, sanitation, and agriculture sectors. The project is stewarded by Samanvay Foundation. ### Ayushman Bharat PMJAY Dashboard - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ayushman-bharat-pmjay-dashboard - **Source URL**: https://dashboard.nha.gov.in/public/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Health, Welfare, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Public dashboard for the world's largest health insurance scheme — hospital admissions, claims, empanelled hospitals, and coverage for 500M+ beneficiaries - **Notes**: The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) dashboard shows real-time hospital admission counts, claim amounts, pre-authorizations, empaneled hospital networks, and beneficiary demographic breakdowns. The related PMJAY Insights portal (insights.pmjay.gov.in) adds treatment speciality analysis, gender-disaggregated data, and district-level drill-downs. ### B.PAC - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/b-pac - **Source URL**: https://bpac.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Non-partisan citizen action to improve governance and civic participation in Bengaluru. - **Notes**: B.PAC (Bangalore Political Action Committee) runs civic-governance campaigns, leadership programmes (B.CLIP), safety audits (B.SAFE), and a Participatory Democracy Fellowship. Its Agenda for Bangalore framework operates as a durable civic reform platform. ### BAIF Development Research Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/baif-development-research-foundation - **Source URL**: https://baif.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Land, Labour, Welfare - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Rural development institution pioneering tribal wadi agroforestry, sustainable livestock management, and watershed regeneration across India - **Notes**: BAIF Development Research Foundation was founded in 1967 by Manibhai Desai (a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi) at Uruli Kanchan, Maharashtra. BAIF is one of India's largest non-governmental rural development organizations, operating across more than 16 states. BAIF is widely known for establishing the *wadi* model — transforming degraded tribal land plots into productive family orchards combining fruit trees, timber, and intercrops — as well as community-based livestock breeding, water resource development, and rural women's livelihood collectives. ### Berkeley Earth - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/berkeley-earth - **Source URL**: https://berkeleyearth.org/data/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: High-resolution global land and ocean temperature datasets with full uncertainty quantification, assembled from more stations than any other global product - **Notes**: Berkeley Earth was founded to address concerns about bias in the main global temperature records. It incorporates more station data than any other group (over 50,000 stations), uses a transparent and fully reproducible methodology, and publishes uncertainty ranges with every estimate. Produces global and country-level temperature series, gridded fields, and city-level warming attribution. Widely cited in climate-litigation and climate-attribution work. ### Bharat Design Labs - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bharat-design-labs - **Source URL**: https://www.bharatdesignlab.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Bridging capability gaps in government, civil society, and the private sector through human-centred design. - **Notes**: Bharat Design Labs applies design thinking to governance and public services, running workshops and projects that help government agencies and civil society organisations solve implementation challenges through user-centred methods. ### Bharat Digital - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bharat-digital - **Source URL**: https://www.bharatdigital.io/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Technology, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Summary**: Cultivating public technologists who bring design, UX, and systems thinking to technology inside government, through the Build for Bharat Fellowship - **Notes**: Bharat Digital aims to define an archetype of a 'public technologist' — someone who instills citizen-centricity, design, and systems thinking when building technology inside government. Its flagship Build for Bharat Fellowship is a six-month programme training early-career technologists in applying technical expertise, design, and UX toward the public good within government systems. Backed by Samagata Foundation. ### Bharathiya Vikas Trust - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bharathiya-vikas-trust - **Source URL**: https://bvtrust.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Manipal, Karnataka - **Summary**: Capacity building and knowledge sharing for vulnerable rural communities. - **Notes**: Bharathiya Vikas Trust runs training and knowledge-sharing initiatives for rural and tribal communities in southern India. Its peer-learning approach strengthens local institutions for sustainable development. ### bharatlas - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bharatlas - **Source URL**: https://bharatlas.com/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Cities, Governance, Environment - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open atlas for viewing, filtering, downloading and contributing Indian geospatial layers, from boundaries and wards to rivers and roads - **Notes**: bharatlas brings Indian administrative boundaries, city wards and thematic map layers into one searchable catalogue. Layers can be viewed in the browser, sliced, queried through a public API and downloaded in common GIS formats without an account or API key. Each layer keeps its own source, licence and freshness metadata. Community submissions are checked for licensing and basic geometry validity but not for accuracy, so verify their provenance before sensitive use. ### Bhoomi College - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bhoomi-college - **Source URL**: https://www.bhoomicollege.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Environment, Climate - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Paid - **Founded**: 2011 - **Summary**: Charitable learning institution offering fellowships, workshops and public programmes on ecology and sustainable living - **Notes**: Bhoomi College is a Bengaluru learning institution run by the K N A Foundation for Education, a public charitable trust. It offers fellowships, short programmes, conferences and workshops that connect ecological living with holistic education, systems thinking and the social and economic assumptions behind environmental crises. Its campus is also used as a working learning environment, incorporating organic gardening, solar power, rainwater harvesting, water recycling and lower-impact building methods. Programmes and residential participation can be paid, so "free" should not be inferred from its nonprofit status; public articles and programme information remain openly readable. ### Bhukosh - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bhukosh - **Source URL**: https://bhukosh.gsi.gov.in/Bhukosh/Public - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Environment, Disasters - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Geological Survey of India's map and geoscience portal for geology, minerals, geochemistry and exploration layers - **Notes**: Bhukosh is the Geological Survey of India's geospatial gateway for published geoscience information. It brings map-indexed geology, mineral occurrences, geochemistry, geophysics, exploration and thematic layers together for searching, visual inspection and, where permitted, download or web-map use. Coverage and scale vary substantially across layers, and a map suitable for regional interpretation may be inappropriate for parcel- or site-level claims. The portal can be slow or temporarily unreachable, and some functions require registration. Check each layer's edition, scale, metadata and access conditions; official publication does not automatically make every geoscience product an openly reusable dataset. ### Bhuvan - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bhuvan - **Source URL**: https://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Cities, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: ISRO's geoportal — satellite imagery, thematic map layers and administrative boundaries for India - **Notes**: Bhuvan is ISRO's geoportal — India's answer to Google Earth, built and operated by the National Remote Sensing Centre. It provides satellite imagery (from Indian remote sensing satellites including Resourcesat, Cartosat, and Oceansat), thematic map layers (land use/land cover, wasteland, groundwater, geomorphology, soil, forest cover), and administrative boundaries. For researchers, Bhuvan offers several unique assets: archive imagery going back decades (useful for change detection), high-resolution Cartosat data (up to 0.6 m), and domain-specific portals (Bhuvan-WRIS for water, Bhuvan-Panchayat for local governance, Bhuvan-Urban for cities). Many layers are exposed as OGC-compliant web services. The NRSC Open Earth Observation Data Archive (NOEDA) provides free orthorectified imagery. ### Biodiversity Collaborative - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/biodiversity-collaborative - **Source URL**: https://biodiversitycollaborative.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Education - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Interdisciplinary biodiversity knowledge, dialogue, and public learning across ecological systems. - **Notes**: The Biodiversity Collaborative is a multi-institutional research network generating interdisciplinary biodiversity knowledge. Its public-facing outputs include the Biodiversity Atlas India and fellowship programmes that bridge conservation science with public learning and policy engagement. ### Biome Environmental Trust - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/biome-environmental-trust - **Source URL**: https://biometrust.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Water, Environment, Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Ecological architecture, rainwater harvesting, and responsible land use. - **Notes**: Biome Environmental Trust describes itself as a thoughtful do-tank and practice-to-policy bridge. Known for the Million Wells for Bengaluru campaign, school rainwater harvesting installations, and open-source water knowledge, it works through communities, well-diggers, plumbers, schools, and state systems. ### BIS Data Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bank-for-international-settlements-data-portal - **Source URL**: https://data.bis.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Global BIS statistics on banking, liquidity, derivatives and related financial indicators, with searchable tables and regular release updates - **Notes**: The BIS Data Portal is the central source for macro-financial indicators published by the Bank for International Settlements. It brings together time series and dashboards across banking, debt securities, derivatives, liquidity, asset prices, and related cross-border statistics. For India-facing work, the portal is mostly useful for international comparability and global market context rather than India-only reporting. It is best used alongside national sources when a country-specific breakdown is needed. ### Bribes.fyi - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bribes-fyi - **Source URL**: https://bribes.fyi/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Transparency, Governance, Law & policing - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Anonymous reports of bribes paid or refused across India, searchable by department, city, amount and date - **Notes**: Bribes.fyi is a crowdsourced registry of encounters with bribery in public services, including reports where a bribe was refused. The full set of approved reports is available as CSV and JSON. Because contributors opt in, the data is a self-selected record of incidents rather than a representative measure of corruption prevalence. ### Bridgespan India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/bridgespan-india - **Source URL**: https://www.bridgespan.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Philanthropy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Advisory, research, and capacity building for philanthropies, NGOs, and social sector systems change. - **Notes**: Bridgespan India is the dedicated regional practice of the global Bridgespan Group, serving philanthropists, nonprofits, and impact leaders. It converts strategic planning, research, and operating frameworks into reusable infrastructure for donors and social-impact organisations. ### Buzz Women - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/buzz-women - **Source URL**: https://buzzwomen.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Gender - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Empowering underserved women through knowledge, skills, and livelihood tools. - **Notes**: Buzz Women runs a mobile-first platform delivering financial literacy and livelihood content to rural women, combined with structured micro-enterprise training. Its model combines digital tools with community networks for sustainable women-led enterprises. ### CAG State Accounts - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/cag-state-accounts - **Source URL**: https://cag.gov.in/en/state-accounts-report?defuat_state_id=92 - **Kind**: Archive - **Topics**: Public finance, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: State Finance Accounts, Appropriation Accounts, monthly fiscal indicators and machine-readable finance data - **Notes**: The Comptroller and Auditor General's State Accounts area collects audited Finance Accounts and Appropriation Accounts for states and union territories, alongside Accounts at a Glance, monthly key indicators and FA&AA data. It is a primary source for state receipts, expenditure, debt, assets, grants, budget execution and spending against legislative authorisation. Annual audited accounts are more authoritative but arrive with a lag; monthly figures are timely and provisional. State pages and historical coverage are not perfectly uniform, and accounting classifications can change. Record the fiscal year, document type and whether a number is budgeted, revised, provisional or audited before comparing it with budgets or RBI compilations. ### Camelot - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/camelot - **Source URL**: https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source Python library for extracting structured tables from text PDFs into Pandas DataFrames, CSV, and Excel - **Notes**: Camelot is an open-source Python library that extracts tabular data from text-based PDF documents into structured formats including Pandas DataFrames, CSV, JSON, and Excel. It provides two extraction parsing methods: Lattice (for tables with demarcated grid lines) and Stream (for tables delineated by whitespace). For researchers, data journalists, and civic technologists analyzing government budget reports, parliamentary responses, and statistical publications where data is trapped in PDF tables, Camelot offers a scriptable, reproducible pipeline with visual debugging plots for table boundary verification. ### Carbon Brief - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/carbon-brief - **Source URL**: https://www.carbonbrief.org/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Climate, Energy, Environment, Media - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UK-based climate science and policy news site — data-driven explainers, fact-checks, and analysis that set the standard for climate journalism worldwide - **Notes**: Carbon Brief is a UK-based nonprofit news organisation that has become one of the most trusted sources of climate reporting globally. It specialises in data-driven explainers, rigorous fact-checks of climate claims, daily news digests, and in-depth analysis of climate science, energy policy, and international negotiations. For Indian researchers and journalists, Carbon Brief is particularly valuable for its clear explanations of complex climate science (how attribution studies work, what the IPCC really says), its interactive maps and charts, and its coverage of how climate change intersects with development. All content is free, and the site's data and charts are available under a Creative Commons licence. Funded by foundation grants and reader donations, with no corporate or government funding. ### Carbon Monitor - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/carbon-monitor - **Source URL**: https://carbonmonitor.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Energy, Economy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Near-real-time daily CO₂ emissions estimates for countries and sectors, updated within weeks — the closest thing to a live global emissions pulse - **Notes**: Carbon Monitor fills the gap between the annual Global Carbon Budget (released ~6 months after year-end) and the need for real-time emissions tracking. It uses machine learning on power generation data, mobility indicators, industrial activity, and satellite observations to estimate daily country-level CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement. Updated every 1-3 weeks. Particularly valuable during the COVID-19 lockdowns and energy crises when annual data was too slow. ### CARE - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/care-open-healthcare-network - **Source URL**: https://ohc.network/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Health, Technology, Governance - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open digital public good for managing healthcare facilities, patient records, critical care and distributed public-health operations - **Notes**: CARE is modular health infrastructure for facilities, hospitals and public health networks. It supports electronic patient records, encounters, facility and resource management, clinical workflows, critical-care coordination and analytics, with extensions for tele-ICU, home care and other service models. The platform is maintained by the Open Healthcare Network Foundation and is listed as a Digital Public Good. Its code is free and MIT-licensed, but a safe production deployment requires clinical governance, secure hosting, configuration, training and compliance with applicable health-data rules. ### CEDA Agri Market Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ceda-agri-market-data - **Source URL**: https://agmarknet.ceda.ashoka.edu.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Agriculture, Economy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: A friendlier interface over AGMARKNET data — explore prices, arrivals, and trends across thousands of Indian agricultural markets - **Notes**: Ashoka University's Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) provides a cleaned, searchable interface on top of the AGMARKNET mandi-price database. It lets researchers explore price trends for 300+ commodities across 3,400+ markets, download bulk data, and create simple visualisations — without learning the AGMARKNET portal's quirks. Particularly useful for journalists and students who need mandi price data but find the government portal difficult to navigate. CEDA also publishes analysis briefs using this data. ### CEEW - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ceew - **Source URL**: https://www.ceew.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Energy, Climate, Water, Environment - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Policy research on energy transition, clean air, water security, climate risks, and sustainable resource use in India - **Notes**: The Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) is one of South Asia's leading non-profit policy research institutions. It uses data and integrated analysis to advise on renewable energy scale-up, industrial decarbonisation, air quality management, power sector transitions, and climate risk vulnerability. CEEW builds interactive public tools and dashboards — including the India Renewables Dashboard, Electric Mobility Dashboard, ValueSTAC solar calculator, and climate vulnerability atlases — converting sectoral research into open decision-support infrastructure. ### Census of India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/census-india - **Source URL**: https://censusindia.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Demography, Housing, Migration - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The decennial census — population, household, migration and housing tables down to village and ward level - **Notes**: The Census of India, conducted every decade since 1881, is the world's largest administrative exercise and the foundational dataset for Indian social science. The 2011 Census provides population, household, gender, age structure, literacy, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe populations, migration, housing quality, and asset ownership data — all the way down to village and ward level. The Primary Census Abstract (PCA) tables are the most commonly used, but the full suite includes migration tables, economic activity tables, fertility tables, and housing tables. For researchers, the key value is the combination of complete coverage (every person counted), granular geography (village/ward level), and long time series (decadal comparisons from 1991, 2001, 2011). The 2021 Census was delayed by COVID-19 and is expected to begin in 2025. ### Central Food Grains Storage Portal (CFSP) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/cfsp - **Source URL**: https://cfsp.nic.in/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Agriculture, Welfare, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Government portal tracking central pool food grain storage capacity and stocks across India — the supply-side complement to the NFSA distribution dashboard - **Notes**: The Central Food Grains Storage Portal (CFSP), maintained by the Department of Food and Public Distribution, tracks the storage infrastructure that underpins India's food security system. It provides data on central pool storage capacity — FCI-owned godowns, hired storage, and state government facilities — along with stock positions of wheat and rice across zones and states. For researchers studying India's Public Distribution System, CFSP is the supply-side complement to the NFSA Dashboard (which tracks the distribution/consumption side): together they provide a complete picture of how food grains move from procurement to storage to distribution. The portal is part of the broader Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS) digital infrastructure. ### Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/cgwb - **Source URL**: https://cgwb.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Water, Agriculture, Environment, Climate - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: India's national groundwater agency — aquifer maps, water level and quality data, resource assessments, and reports on a critical water resource - **Notes**: The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, is India's apex groundwater agency. It monitors and assesses the country's groundwater resources — the source of ~60% of irrigation and ~85% of rural drinking water — through a network of 25,000+ observation wells. Key public outputs include: annual groundwater resource assessments (state and district-level recharge, extraction, and stage of development), groundwater level and quality data (with geogenic contaminants like arsenic and fluoride mapped nationally), and the National Aquifer Mapping and Management Programme (NAQUIM) which produces detailed 3D aquifer maps. For researchers, CGWB data is essential for studying water stress, agricultural sustainability, drinking water security, and climate adaptation. The CGWB also publishes data through the National Water Data Portal (nwdp.nwic.gov.in) and complements India-WRIS's surface water focus. ### Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/cbga - **Source URL**: https://www.cbgaindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Public finance, Welfare, Transparency, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit policy group analyzing Union and state budgets from an equity perspective to advance social sector spending and fiscal transparency - **Notes**: The Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) is an independent non-profit research and advocacy organization based in New Delhi. It specializes in tracking public budgets, fiscal policy decisions, and government spending priorities through the lens of equity and social justice. CBGA produces accessible analyses of annual Union and state budgets, examining allocations for health, education, children, women (gender budgeting), agriculture, and marginalized communities. It also collaborates with grassroots organizations to build public literacy around fiscal accountability. ### Centre for Economic Data and Analysis - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ceda - **Source URL**: https://ceda.ashoka.edu.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Economy, Agriculture, Demography, Welfare - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Ashoka University research center providing open socio-economic data tools, mandi prices, enterprise trackers, and policy analysis - **Notes**: The Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) is an economics research hub and open data platform at Ashoka University dedicated to making India's socio-economic data accessible, intuitive, and visually actionable. CEDA integrates and harmonizes complex government data collections (including NSS, PLFS, NFHS, Census, ASI, ASUSE, and AGMARKNET). It offers interactive visual query tools, including: - **Socio-Economic Data Portal:** Multi-dimensional cross-tabulation across health, education, employment, gender, and demographics. - **Agri-Market & Food Prices Trackers:** Longitudinal commodity price and arrival trends across 2,700+ agricultural mandis. - **Economic Enterprises Data Tracker:** Longitudinal profiles of formal and informal manufacturing and services enterprises. - **Data Notes & Policy Briefs:** Methodological explanations and empirical analysis clarifying nuances in official statistics. ### Centre for Environment Concerns - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/centre-for-environment-concerns - **Source URL**: https://cecenvis.nic.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Water - **Geography**: India, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Hyderabad, Telangana - **Summary**: Water-soil-climate innovations and resilient farming systems for drought-prone regions. - **Notes**: CEC works on tank and watershed restoration for agricultural resilience in drought-prone Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Its dryland farming systems approach integrates water conservation, soil health, and climate-resilient cropping for semi-arid regions. ### Centre for Law and Policy Research - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/centre-for-law-and-policy-research - **Source URL**: https://clpr.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Law & policing, Rights, Gender, Caste - **Geography**: Karnataka, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Legal research trust dedicated to constitutional history, transgender rights, disability law, and caste discrimination litigation in India - **Notes**: The Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR) is a non-profit trust based in Bengaluru, founded in 2009 by Jayna Kothari and Sudhir Krishnaswamy. CLPR combines public interest litigation with historical and empirical legal scholarship to advance constitutional protections and social rights. CLPR built ConstitutionofIndia.net (CADIndia), the canonical searchable digital archive of India's Constituent Assembly Debates. The organisation actively litigates landmark constitutional cases on transgender rights, the rights of persons with disabilities, and intersectional discrimination under Indian law. ### Centre for Policy Research - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/centre-for-policy-research - **Source URL**: https://cprindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Governance, Climate, Cities, Public finance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Independent public policy think tank conducting empirical research on urbanisation, climate governance, state capacity, and federalism - **Notes**: The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) is a non-partisan public policy research institution established in 1973 in New Delhi. CPR conducts multidisciplinary scholarship on the major challenges confronting 21st-century India, focusing on environmental law and climate change, urbanisation, state capacity, education, economic policy, and international affairs. CPR's research initiatives include the Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment (ICEE), the Accountability Initiative (which analyzes public expenditure and social sector program implementation through the PAISA project), and the Urbanisation Initiative (investigating informal settlements and urban land tenure). ### Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/crea - **Source URL**: https://energyandcleanair.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Energy, Climate, Environment, Health - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Independent research organisation tracking air pollution, health impacts of fossil fuels, and clean energy transitions — with significant India analysis - **Notes**: CREA (Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air) is an independent research organisation that uses scientific data and evidence to support governments, companies, and campaigners in the transition to clean energy and clean air. Founded by lead analyst Lauri Myllyvirta, CREA publishes rigorously researched reports on: health impacts of fossil fuel pollution (with a methodology that quantifies deaths, asthma cases, and economic costs from individual power plants and industrial facilities), country-level energy and emissions snapshots (especially China and Southeast Asia), and policy analysis of fossil fuel subsidies and sanctions. For India, CREA has published assessments of air quality and health impacts from specific industrial facilities, and analysis of India's coal power and renewable energy transition. All research is freely available, data-driven, and methodology-transparent. ### Centre for Science and Environment - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/centre-for-science-and-environment - **Source URL**: https://www.cseindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Energy - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Public-interest research and advocacy organisation advancing environmental governance, clean air, water management, and sustainable development - **Notes**: The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) was founded in 1980 by Anil Agarwal and is one of India's premier public interest research and advocacy organisations. CSE conducts empirical policy research, environmental audits, laboratory pollution testing, and public campaigns on clean air, urban transport, rainwater harvesting, renewable energy, and industrial pollution. CSE publishes Down To Earth, India's leading science and environment fortnightly, as well as the annual State of India's Environment report. Its advocacy contributed to landmark policy transformations including the introduction of CNG public transit in Delhi, mandatory rainwater harvesting, and pesticide standards in beverages. ### Centre for Social and Economic Progress - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/csep - **Source URL**: https://csep.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Economy, Energy, Climate, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Independent public policy research institution conducting empirical scholarship on energy transition, finance, and human development in India - **Notes**: The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) is an independent, non-partisan public policy research think tank located in New Delhi (established in 2020 as the successor to Brookings India). CSEP produces research across macroeconomic stability, financial sector regulation, clean energy transition, critical minerals supply chains, foreign policy, and health economics. Its scholars provide evidence-based policy briefs to government ministries, regulatory bodies, and international forums. ### Centre for Wildlife Studies - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/centre-for-wildlife-studies - **Source URL**: https://cwsindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Conserving India's wildlife through research and community engagement, with flagship coexistence programmes. - **Notes**: CWS turns coexistence research into applied programmes: Wild Seve (conflict-response toll-free system), Wild Shaale (wildlife curriculum for schools near reserves), and Wild Surakshe (zoonotic disease and safety workshops). It pairs field programmes with doctoral and incubator pathways to grow conservation capacity. ### Chatwoot - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/chatwoot - **Source URL**: https://www.chatwoot.com/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0-or-later) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source omnichannel customer support and helpdesk platform integrating WhatsApp, email, live chat, and SMS in a unified inbox - **Notes**: Chatwoot is an open-source, self-hostable customer communication and support platform designed as an alternative to proprietary services like Intercom and Zendesk. It unifies messages from WhatsApp, email, website live chat, Telegram, and SMS into a single shared inbox for support teams. For civic organisations, legal aid clinics, and community helplines, Chatwoot provides a private, self-hosted system to triage citizen inquiries, assign caseworkers, automate routing with canned responses, and maintain conversation audit histories without per-agent subscription fees. ### CHIRPS Rainfall Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/chirps-rainfall-data - **Source URL**: https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Agriculture, Water, Disasters - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: High-resolution rainfall estimates combining satellite observations and gauge data — 40+ years of quasi-global precipitation at 0.05°, updated daily - **Notes**: CHIRPS (Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data) is one of the most widely used datasets in development research. At 0.05° (~5.5 km) resolution with daily data from 1981, it is ideal for drought monitoring, crop yield analysis, flood early warning, and food security research. CHIRPS3 (released 2025) extends coverage to 1983-present with improved algorithms and global coverage beyond 50° latitude. For India, CHIRPS matches well with IMD station data and is the standard rainfall input for FEWS NET famine early warning. Combine with AGMARKNET mandi prices or MGNREGA wage data for powerful rural distress analysis. ### Citizen consumer and civic Action Group - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/citizen-consumer-and-civic-action-group - **Source URL**: https://www.cag.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Governance, Energy, Transport, Cities - **Geography**: Tamil Nadu, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit research and advocacy group in Tamil Nadu working on consumer rights, electricity governance, road safety, and urban mobility - **Notes**: The Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG) was established in 1985 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, as an independent, non-profit citizen action group. CAG conducts public interest research, policy advocacy, and community outreach on electricity sector reforms (representing consumer interests at state electricity regulatory commissions), public road safety enforcement, municipal solid waste management, and sustainable urban transport planning. ### Cityfinance - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/cityfinance - **Source URL**: https://www.cityfinance.in/home - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Cities, Public finance, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Municipal finance portal for 4,000+ Indian cities with city-level fiscal, revenue and performance data for benchmarking and comparison - **Notes**: Cityfinance is a city-level financial platform for comparing and analysing municipal performance across India. It brings together audited statements, municipal revenues, debt, and service level benchmarks in one place, with city-wise drilldowns for practical policy work. This is especially useful for teams focused on urban finance, fiscal devolution and state-level supervision of municipal accounts. The strongest use case is not raw extraction of every table but rapid assessment and benchmarking: you can quickly identify financially stressed cities, compare income capacity signals, and validate which data are available in published municipal forms before moving to deeper analysis in government filings. It is most useful when paired with Open Budgets India and state finance portals during campaign briefs or city-focused policy work. ### CivicDataLab - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/civicdatalab - **Source URL**: https://civicdatalab.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Technology, Public finance, Law & policing, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Research lab using open data, data science, and design to improve public finance, legal transparency, procurement, and civic tech in India - **Notes**: CivicDataLab is an interdisciplinary research lab working at the intersection of data science, public policy, open source technology, and design. The collective develops digital public goods and data infrastructure to strengthen public finance accountability, judicial efficiency, procurement transparency, and climate disaster response. Its major initiatives include co-developing Open Budgets India (making union, state, and city budgets machine-readable), Justice Hub (an open repository for Indian legal datasets), and open procurement analytics models to help governments and civil society audit public spending. ### CiviCRM - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/civicrm - **Source URL**: https://civicrm.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL v3) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source constituent relationship management for nonprofits — manage donors, members, events, campaigns, and casework, used by 14,000+ organisations - **Notes**: CiviCRM is the leading open-source CRM for the nonprofit sector — think Salesforce for civil society, but free and community-owned. It handles contact management, fundraising and donations, membership management, event registration, email campaigns, case management, and reporting, all integrated with WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla. For Indian nonprofits, CiviCRM provides a proper donor and beneficiary management system without the recurring licence fees of commercial alternatives. It supports multiple languages and currencies, and can be customised for programme-specific workflows. The platform is stewarded by a nonprofit (CiviCRM LLC) and maintained by a global community of contributors and service providers, including several in India. ### Civis - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/civis - **Source URL**: https://www.civis.vote/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Technology, Law & policing - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Civic-tech platform enabling citizens to participate in public consultations and lawmaking. - **Notes**: Civis provides a public digital interface for tracking government consultations and submitting citizen feedback on policy and legal changes. It makes regulatory participation legible, repeatable, and actionable for ordinary citizens. ### CKAN - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ckan - **Source URL**: https://ckan.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL v3) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The open-source data portal behind data.gov.in and hundreds of government portals — publish, manage, and share datasets with APIs and rich metadata - **Notes**: CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network) is the open-source software that powers most of the world's open data portals — including India's data.gov.in, the Smart Cities Data Portal, and portals in the US, UK, EU, and dozens of other countries. It provides a complete platform for publishing datasets with rich metadata, exposing them through a documented API, managing access controls, and enabling data previews and visualisations. For Indian civic technologists, CKAN matters because it's the standard — if you want to set up an open data portal for a city, state, or organisation, CKAN is the proven, battle-tested choice. The CKAN ecosystem includes extensions for geospatial data, harvesting from other portals, and custom theming. Maintained by the CKAN Association and a global community. ### Climate RISE Alliance - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/climate-rise-alliance - **Source URL**: https://climaterise.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Climate - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Climate resilience alliance connecting vulnerable communities with adaptation knowledge, finance, and action. - **Notes**: Climate RISE Alliance operates as a coalition platform gathering collaborators working on resilience, inclusion, and climate adaptation. Its public framing emphasises climate resilience through cross-sector collaboration around people and places most exposed to risk. ### Climate TRACE - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/climate-trace - **Source URL**: https://climatetrace.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Energy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: AI-powered inventory of greenhouse gas emissions from 745 million individual assets worldwide — power plants, ships, factories, farms, and forests - **Notes**: Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) uses satellite imagery, remote sensing, and machine learning to estimate emissions from every significant source on Earth. Unlike national inventories that rely on self-reporting, TRACE independently observes emissions from 745M+ assets. For India, it provides facility-level estimates for power plants, steel mills, cement plants, ships, and landfills — making it a powerful accountability complement to official BUR submissions. ### Climate Watch - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/climate-watch - **Source URL**: https://www.climatewatchdata.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Energy, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: WRI's open climate data platform — country-level greenhouse gas emissions, NDCs, climate policies, and linkages across development indicators in one interface - **Notes**: Climate Watch integrates emissions data from CAIT (Climate Analysis Indicators Tool), NDC content from the UNFCCC registry, climate finance flows, and World Bank development indicators. For India, it provides year-wise GHG emissions by sector and gas through 2022, full text of India's NDC submissions and Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategy, and country-level adaptation and mitigation profiles. The API makes it easy to embed these figures in dashboards. ### Cliopatria - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/cliopatria - **Source URL**: https://github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Governance, Demography - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC-BY-4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-access geospatial dataset and polygon boundaries of historical polities and states across the globe from 3400 BCE to the present - **Notes**: Cliopatria is an open-source historical GIS dataset developed as part of the Seshat Global History Databank project. It provides temporal polygon boundaries and territorial extents for thousands of historical polities, empires, kingdoms, and sovereign entities worldwide from 3400 BCE up to the modern era. Distributed as GeoJSON and TopoJSON layers, Cliopatria allows researchers, cartographers, and digital humanities scholars to render dynamic historical maps, track territorial expansion and contraction over centuries, and integrate historical sovereignty data into GIS tools like QGIS and MapLibre. ### Coal Controller's Organisation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/coal-controllers-organisation - **Source URL**: https://coal.nic.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Energy, Economy, Environment - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Monthly coal production, dispatch, pithead stock, and royalty statistics by company, state, and grade — the primary source on India's largest energy commodity - **Notes**: Coal generates ~70% of India's electricity and is the single largest source of government mineral revenue. The CCO publishes monthly output and dispatch data for Coal India, SCCL, and captive mines, with grade-wise and state-wise breakdowns. The Ministry of Coal's broader statistics suite adds import, export, and washery data. ### Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/commonwealth-human-rights-initiative - **Source URL**: https://humanrightsinitiative.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Law & policing, Rights, Transparency, Governance - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Independent international NGO advocating for police accountability, prison reforms, judicial access, and freedom of information across South Asia - **Notes**: The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, non-partisan international NGO established in 1987, headquartered in New Delhi. CHRI works to strengthen democratic accountability, human rights compliance, and transparency institutions across Commonwealth countries. In India, CHRI conducts empirical monitoring of police oversight bodies, tracks conditions and undertrial populations in state prisons, produces procedural legal guides for legal aid lawyers, and monitors the implementation and weakening of Right to Information (RTI) regimes. ### Community Conserved Areas Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/cca-map - **Source URL**: https://communityconservedareas.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Environment - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Participatory portal documenting community conserved areas across South Asia, with locations, ecosystems, areas and legal status - **Notes**: Found via env.wiki. Community conserved areas sit outside the formal protected-area system, so they are absent from most official conservation datasets. ### Commutiny - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/commutiny - **Source URL**: https://commutiny.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Nurturing the leadership potential of young people through ecosystem-building and experiential journeys. - **Notes**: ComMutiny has built a youth-development ecosystem around the idea of the Jagrik (jagruk nagrik — aware citizen). Its public products include the Be a Jagrik board game, the Togetherness Table dialogue format, and the vartaLeap cross-sector coalition for youth-centric development. ### Consul Democracy - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/consul-democracy - **Source URL**: https://consuldemocracy.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Governance, Transparency, Cities, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0-or-later) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source citizen participation platform for citizen proposals, participatory budgeting, public debates, and collaborative legislation - **Notes**: Consul Democracy is a widely-used open-source citizen participation platform originally developed by the City of Madrid (Decide Madrid) and now stewarded by the Consul Democracy Foundation. It provides public administrations and civic organisations with tools for citizen debates, direct proposal submissions, voting, participatory budgeting, and collaborative legislative drafting. Used by over 130 institutions across 35 countries, Consul includes cryptographic voting integrity checks, geographical zoning for neighbourhood-level initiatives, and a customizable administrative backend for municipal officers to manage citizen inputs transparently. ### Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/copernicus-atmosphere-monitoring-service-cams - **Source URL**: https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Health - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Copernicus Licence) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Global atmospheric composition — aerosols, reactive gases, greenhouse gases, wildfire emissions, and air quality forecasts, from the EU's Copernicus programme - **Notes**: CAMS provides global and regional atmospheric composition data — including PM2.5, PM10, NO₂, O₃, SO₂, CO, methane, and aerosol optical depth — from satellite instruments, ground observations, and model reanalysis. For India, CAMS global forecasts (at ~40 km) and regional European forecasts are the main relevant products. The CAMS reanalysis (EAC4) goes back to 2003. Companion to Sentinel-5P satellite data on atmospheric constituents. Particularly useful when you need consistent atmospheric data across a region where ground monitors are sparse. ### Copernicus Browser - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/copernicus-browser - **Source URL**: https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Environment, Agriculture, Water - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Copernicus Licence) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: ESA's visual browser for Sentinel satellite imagery — optical, radar, and atmospheric data from the Copernicus constellation, with on-the-fly visualisation - **Notes**: Copernicus Browser is the visual gateway to the full Sentinel satellite constellation: Sentinel-1 (radar), Sentinel-2 (optical, 10 m), Sentinel-3 (ocean/land), Sentinel-5P (atmospheric chemistry), and Sentinel-6 (sea level). Unlike Google Earth Engine, it requires no coding — you can visualise, composite, and download scenes in the browser. The underlying Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem provides API access and cloud processing. All data is free and open for any use. ### Copernicus Climate Data Store - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/copernicus-climate-data-store - **Source URL**: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Water, Energy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Copernicus Licence) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The EU's climate data warehouse — ERA5 reanalysis, seasonal forecasts, projections, satellite observations, and sectoral indicators, all with documented APIs - **Notes**: The CDS is the single most important open climate data platform globally. ERA5 provides hourly climate and weather reanalysis from 1940 to near-present at ~31 km resolution, covering the atmosphere, land surface, and ocean. Also hosts C3S seasonal forecasts, CMIP6 climate projections, and sectoral applications (energy, water, agriculture, health). Free registration required for API access. ### CoRE Stack (CommonsTech Foundation) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/core-stack-commonstech-foundation - **Source URL**: https://core-stack.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Technology, Land - **Geography**: India, Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Odisha, Rajasthan - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Community-based digital public infrastructure for natural-resource planning, resilience, and landscape stewardship. - **Notes**: CoRE Stack bundles geospatial tools (Commons Connect, Know Your Landscape), commons-oriented datasets, and a monthly Community of Practice. It treats data, workflows, and stewardship infrastructure as shared commons rather than isolated project assets. ### CourtsDaily - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/courtsdaily - **Source URL**: https://courtsdaily.info/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Law & policing, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Proprietary - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Search Indian court and tribunal cases, orders, hearing histories and outcomes by party, advocate, judge, court or keyword - **Notes**: CourtsDaily structures public judicial records into searchable case timelines, hearings, orders, parties, advocates and outcomes, with links back to official court records. Coverage begins in 2017 for the National Company Law Tribunal and in 2020 for most covered constitutional courts; consult the coverage page before treating results as complete. Some services require an account or subscription, and the terms prohibit systematic extraction of the database. ### Courtyard Koota - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/courtyard-koota - **Source URL**: https://courtyardkoota.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Summary**: Community and event space in Bengaluru — art, music, science, learning, and culture, plus Makkala Masti outreach for rural government school children - **Notes**: Courtyard Koota in Kengeri, Bengaluru, is a community and event space that knits together art, music, science, and culture. Samagata Foundation supports Makkala Masti, its outreach programme combining education, arts, and theatre for government school children in surrounding villages. The programme employs dedicated teachers and provides children access to the space's varied activities. ### CPCB Air Quality - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/cpcb-air-quality - **Source URL**: https://airquality.cpcb.gov.in - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Environment, Health, Cities - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Live and historical air quality readings from India's continuous monitoring stations, with the National Air Quality Index - **Notes**: The CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board) Air Quality portal provides live and historical air quality data from India's Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS). It displays the National Air Quality Index (AQI) — a composite measure of PM2.5, PM10, NO₂, SO₂, CO, O₃, and NH₃ — for 250+ cities across India. For researchers, the portal provides the only official real-time air quality data, though coverage is concentrated in urban areas and data availability can be inconsistent. The historical data can be downloaded for individual stations. For programmatic access and research-grade data, OpenAQ (which aggregates CPCB data) is often easier to work with. ### CSTEP - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/cstep - **Source URL**: https://cstep.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Housing, Cities, Governance, Technology - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Assam - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Bridging the gap between science, technology, and policy through modelling, tools, and digital platforms. - **Notes**: The Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) has one of the most explicit public tool stacks in Indian policy research: SAFARI (systems model), PAVITRA (air-quality modelling), E-DEPOT (e-bus planning), EI 76 (emissions portal), DEFT (climate adaptation), and DARPAN (decision analysis platform). ### D3.js & Observable Plot - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/d3-observable-plot - **Source URL**: https://d3js.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Media - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (ISC) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The foundational open-source JavaScript libraries for data visualisation — D3 for bespoke interactive graphics, Observable Plot for quick exploratory charts - **Notes**: D3.js (Data-Driven Documents) is the library behind virtually every bespoke interactive data visualisation on the web. Created by Mike Bostock and now maintained by Observable, it provides low-level primitives for binding data to DOM elements and applying data-driven transformations — giving you complete control over every pixel. Observable Plot, also from the same team, is the higher-level sibling: a concise API for creating statistical charts (scatterplots, bars, lines, areas, heatmaps) in just a few lines of code, designed for exploratory analysis. Together, they span the full spectrum from quick data exploration to polished, interactive narrative visualisations. Both are free, open-source, and widely used by newsrooms (including Indian data journalism teams), researchers, and civic technologists. ### Dakshin Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/dakshin-foundation - **Source URL**: https://www.dakshin.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Labour - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Marine and coastal conservation linked to livelihoods, wellbeing, and environmental justice. - **Notes**: Dakshin Foundation runs the Andaman Nicobar Environment Team (ANET), ReefLog and LTEO monitoring, Lagoon Fest, and the SeaChange intersectoral model for coastal socio-ecological change. Its #KhaneKeLiyeBachao philosophy ties food, livelihoods, and ecological sustainability into a rights-based conservation approach. ### Dalgo - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/dalgo - **Source URL**: https://dalgo.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Governance, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source data platform helping nonprofits consolidate programme data, automate transformations and produce dependable reporting - **Notes**: Dalgo brings data from spreadsheets, survey tools, CRMs and programme systems into an organisation-controlled warehouse. It automates ingestion and transformation, then feeds cleaned data into dashboards, reports, alerts and other applications so monitoring and evaluation teams spend less time repeatedly consolidating files. Project Tech4Dev developed the platform around the needs of social-impact organisations, including integrations with KoboToolbox, Avni and Glific. Its core backend and portal are available under the AGPL. Using the code is free, but Dalgo's managed service and implementation support are paid and cloud infrastructure carries its own costs. ### Data for India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/data-for-india - **Source URL**: https://www.dataforindia.com - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Demography, Economy, Health - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Curated charts and underlying data on how India lives, earns and grows, built for people who are not statisticians - **Notes**: Useful when you need a defensible national-level number quickly and want to see how it was constructed rather than just cite it. The explainers are unusually good at saying what a series does *not* measure, which is the part most secondary reporting drops. ### data.gov.in - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/data-gov-in - **Source URL**: https://www.data.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (GODL-India) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: India's Open Government Data platform — datasets published by ministries, states and departments under a licence that permits commercial reuse - **Notes**: Run by the National Informatics Centre and live since October 2012. Everything on it carries the Government Open Data License – India, gazette notified in February 2017, which explicitly permits commercial as well as non-commercial use — unusual enough among government portals to be worth knowing. ### DataMeet - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/datameet - **Source URL**: https://datameet.org - **Kind**: Community - **Topics**: Technology, Governance, Cities - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: India's open data community — mailing list, city chapters, and the maintainers behind several widely used boundary datasets - **Notes**: DataMeet is a community of data enthusiasts, researchers, and civic technologists who work on making Indian public data more accessible and usable. They run meetups, workshops, and hackathons across Indian cities, and maintain a repository of cleaned and structured Indian datasets — often taking messy government data and making it analysis-ready. For anyone getting started with Indian public data, DataMeet is the community to connect with: the members know where to find data, how to clean it, and what its limitations are. The community is volunteer-run, open to all, and operates primarily through its Google Group, GitHub repositories, and in-person events. ### Datasette - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/datasette - **Source URL**: https://datasette.io/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Transparency, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Apache-2.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source tool for exploring structured data and publishing it as a searchable website with a documented JSON API - **Notes**: Datasette turns structured data into an interactive website and JSON API. It can publish SQLite databases directly, while companion tools and plugins help import CSV, JSON and data from other databases, add full-text search, create visualisations and control access. It is especially useful for journalists, researchers, archives and public agencies that need to make a dataset browsable without building a custom web application. Datasette runs locally or on a server; publishing a public instance still requires suitable hosting and attention to privacy and access controls. ### Datawrapper - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/datawrapper - **Source URL**: https://www.datawrapper.de/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Media, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Proprietary - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Create charts, maps, and tables for the web — the tool behind most data journalism graphics, with a generous free tier for newsrooms and nonprofits - **Notes**: Datawrapper is the go-to visualisation tool for data journalism — if you've read a data-driven news article from The Hindu, IndiaSpend, or any major publication, the charts were likely made with Datawrapper. It produces clean, accessible, responsive charts, maps, and tables that look professional without requiring design or coding skills. For Indian nonprofits and researchers, the free tier is genuinely useful: unlimited charts, basic map support, and core chart types. The tool handles Indian data well, including Devanagari and other Indian scripts. Particularly good for choropleth maps of Indian states and districts — upload your data, match to built-in administrative boundaries, and publish in minutes. Paid plans add custom themes, team features, and advanced map options. ### Decidim - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/decidim - **Source URL**: https://decidim.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Governance, Transparency, Rights, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0-or-later) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source digital citizen participation and participatory democracy platform for consultations, voting, assemblies, and participatory budgeting - **Notes**: Decidim ("We decide" in Catalan) is a free and open-source participatory democracy framework originally built by the City of Barcelona. It enables cities, regional governments, citizen movements, and civil society organisations to run transparent democratic processes including participatory budgeting, citizen proposals, public debates, collaborative policymaking, and electoral consultations. The platform provides a modular architecture with secure identity verification, deliberation spaces, and accountability mechanisms that track whether approved citizen proposals are implemented. Decidim is maintained by an international open-source community and is deployed by hundreds of municipalities and civic organisations worldwide. ### Deloitte India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/deloitte-india - **Source URL**: https://www2.deloitte.com/in/en.html - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Climate, Philanthropy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Sustainability, climate, and systems-change partnerships spanning business, philanthropy, and public problem-solving. - **Notes**: Deloitte India's social-impact work includes the WorldClimate programme and advisory partnerships with philanthropies and government. It brings professional services capacity to sustainability, climate transitions, and public-interest systems change. ### Development Data Lab - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/development-data-lab - **Source URL**: https://www.devdatalab.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Demography, Cities - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Research group publishing SHRUG, an open geographic platform linking Indian census, economic and night-lights data - **Notes**: Development Data Lab (DDL) is a US-based research group that publishes the SHRUG (Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic) platform — an open geographic dataset linking Indian census data, economic census data, night-lights satellite data, and other spatial data at the village, town, and ward level. For researchers, SHRUG is a transformative resource: it provides a consistent spatial framework spanning 1990-2020, enabling panel data analysis of economic development, urbanisation, and public service delivery at much finer resolution than state or district aggregates. All data is freely downloadable and well-documented. DDL also publishes working papers demonstrating how to use the data for policy-relevant research. ### DHAN Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/dhan-foundation - **Source URL**: https://www.dhan.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Water, Agriculture, Economy, Welfare - **Geography**: Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Development organisation revitalising traditional tank cascade irrigation systems and building community-owned microfinance institutions in South India - **Notes**: The DHAN Foundation (Development of Humane Action) was founded in 1997 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, to eliminate poverty through institution-building and community ownership. DHAN is recognized for its *Vayalagam Tankfed Agriculture Development Programme*, which rehabilitates ancient village tank cascade systems and establishes democratic Water Users Associations to manage local surface water. It also created the *Kalanjiam Community Banking Programme*, federating women's self-help groups into self-sustaining micro-finance institutions. ### DIGIT - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/digit - **Source URL**: https://docs.digit.org/platform - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Governance, Technology, Cities, Public finance - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source digital infrastructure for governments to build interoperable public services, registries and administrative workflows - **Notes**: DIGIT provides reusable, API-first building blocks for governments and their partners to digitise public services. Its shared registries, configurable workflows, role-based access and modular services can underpin citizen, front-line worker and administrative applications without tying an agency to a single vendor. The platform originated in India and is maintained primarily by eGov Foundation. It has been applied to urban governance, public finance, sanitation, health and other domains. DIGIT is infrastructure rather than a ready-made service: meaningful deployment requires implementation partners, configuration, hosting and institutional ownership. ### Digital Library of India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/digital-library-of-india - **Source URL**: https://archive.org/details/digitallibraryindia - **Kind**: Archive - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Education, Media - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Massive digitised collection of Indian books in multiple languages — part of the Million Book Project, hosted on Internet Archive with millions of free volumes - **Notes**: The Digital Library of India (DLI) is one of the largest digitised collections of Indian books in the world. Originally a partnership between IISc Bangalore, CDAC Noida, IIIT Hyderabad, and Carnegie Mellon University's Million Book Project, the collection was later mirrored to the Internet Archive where it now lives as a permanent public resource. It contains millions of volumes in English and major Indian languages including Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, and Punjabi. The collection spans literature, philosophy, religion, science, history, law, and government publications — many of which are out of print or otherwise inaccessible. All content is freely downloadable in multiple formats. For Indian researchers, DLI is an irreplaceable resource for accessing historical texts and pre-copyright works that are not available through any other digital platform. ### Digital Sansad - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sansad - **Source URL**: https://sansad.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Governance, Elections, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official record of the Indian Parliament — questions and answers, debates, bills, committee reports and member details - **Notes**: Digital Sansad is the official digital platform of the Indian Parliament, providing access to the complete legislative record: questions and answers (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha), debates (verbatim proceedings), bills (text, status, committee reports), and member profiles. For researchers and journalists, Parliamentary questions are an invaluable data source — MPs ask detailed questions about government programmes and the ministries are required to provide factual answers, making them a free, high-quality source of official statistics that are often not published elsewhere. The debates provide the legislative history and political context for every law passed. The platform replaced the older Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha websites with a unified interface. ### Discourse - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/discourse - **Source URL**: https://www.discourse.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL v2) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Modern open-source forum and community platform — the standard for online discussion, used by thousands of communities and Indian civic groups - **Notes**: Discourse is the leading open-source platform for online communities and discussion forums. It provides a clean, modern interface with features like threaded discussions, trust levels (graduated permissions for community members), notifications, search, and moderation tools. For Indian civil society, Discourse is the platform of choice for building knowledge-sharing communities — the Rainmatter Grove (grove.rainmatter.org), DataMeet, and numerous Indian civic tech groups use Discourse. It can be self-hosted or used through Discourse's managed hosting. The platform is open-source (GPL), actively maintained, and has a large plugin ecosystem. Particularly valuable for organisations that want to build lasting community knowledge bases rather than ephemeral chat groups. ### District-level satellite measures of the Indian economy - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/district-level-satellite-measures-indian-economy - **Source URL**: https://www.xkdr.org/system/district-level-satellite-measures-of-the-indian-economy - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Cities, Land, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: District-level building volume and monthly nighttime lights for tracking physical capital and economic activity across India - **Notes**: XKDR Forum combines two satellite-derived proxies for studying local economic change across India. Its annual building-volume series covers 2016–2023 using Google's Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal dataset, while its cleaned VIIRS nighttime-lights series runs monthly from 2014 onward. Both district panels are available as CSV downloads, and the repository includes district boundaries and Google Colab notebooks that researchers can reproduce or adapt for other countries. The measures can support work on economic geography, urbanisation and regional disparities, but they are proxies rather than district GDP estimates. XKDR flags the 2022 building snapshot as potentially problematic, and notes that shifts to more efficient LED lighting can lower recorded radiance even when underlying activity rises. ### Docmost - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/docmost - **Source URL**: https://docmost.com/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0-or-later) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source, self-hosted collaborative wiki and documentation workspace for research teams and non-profit knowledge bases - **Notes**: Docmost is an open-source, self-hosted collaborative documentation and wiki platform created as an open alternative to proprietary tools like Notion and Confluence. Built with NestJS, Vue.js, and TipTap, it features real-time collaborative rich-text editing, nested page hierarchies, diagram support (Mermaid), and permissions management. For research groups, non-profits, and civic tech teams, Docmost provides a private, internally-hosted workspace to document institutional standard operating procedures (SOPs), project meeting notes, and research findings with full data sovereignty. ### Documentaries on Labour, Capitalism, and Development - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/documentaries-on-labour-capitalism-and-development - **Source URL**: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cNB5gxszMrUxkuNMc0zvoe7tZxwXMwDt/edit?gid=1817742350#gid=1817742350 - **Kind**: Directory - **Topics**: Labour, Caste, Land, Climate - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Curated directory of documentaries on labour, caste, land dispossession, agrarian movements, and climate justice across India and the world - **Notes**: This curated Google Sheet provides a structured watchlist of over 50 non-fiction films, documentaries, and investigative shorts exploring critical themes in political economy, social stratification, and ecological crisis. Each listing records the film title, director, release year, thematic keywords, regional focus, and direct streaming or trailer links (primarily YouTube and independent film platforms). The catalogue is organised into six thematic collections: - **Labour, Caste, Migration & Agrarian Distress**: Canonical works documenting untouchability, manual scavenging, mill and unfree labour, urban homelessness, and agrarian indebtedness (including Anand Patwardhan's *Jai Bhim Comrade* and *Hamara Shahar*, Divya Bharathi's *Kakkoos*, Deepa Bhatia's *Nero's Guests*, Shaunak Sen's *Cities of Sleep*, and Yugantar Collective's *Tambaku Chaakila Oob Aali*). - **Land, Dispossession, Extraction & Environment**: Grassroots resistance against displacement, mega-dams, and resource extractivism in Adivasi regions (including Akhra's *Resistance*, Biju Toppo and Meghnath's *Development Flows from the Barrel of the Gun*, Franny Armstrong's *Drowned Out*, and Sanjay Kak's *In the Forest Hangs a Bridge* and *Red Ant Dream*). - **Indian Farmers' Protest (2020–21)**: Documentaries chronicling the historic year-long agitation on Delhi's borders (*Too Much Democracy*, *Farming the Revolution*, *Trolley Times: The Film*, *Kisan Satyagraha*). - **Global Capitalism, Debt & Finance**: International critiques of corporate power, structural adjustment, IMF/World Bank programmes, and global supply chains (*The Corporation*, *Life and Debt*, *The True Cost*, *Poverty, Inc.*). - **Climate Crisis**: Documentaries investigating climate politics, extractivism, and planetary boundaries (*This Changes Everything*, *The Age of Stupid*, *Anthropocene: The Human Epoch*). - **Food Systems, Sovereignty & Agro-Ecology**: Studies in seed sovereignty, local ecological knowledge, and commodity food chains (*Seed Stories*, *Ilha das Flores*). ### DSpace - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/dspace - **Source URL**: https://duraspace.org/dspace/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Education, Technology, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (BSD) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source digital repository platform — the standard for institutional archives, used by 3,000+ universities and research organisations worldwide - **Notes**: DSpace is the most widely deployed open-source digital repository software in the world. It powers the institutional repositories of thousands of universities, research centres, and government organisations — including many Indian institutions (IISc, IITs, ISI, ICSSR). For Indian researchers, DSpace is the infrastructure behind open access to Indian scholarly output: theses, dissertations, journal articles, reports, datasets, and archival materials that would otherwise be inaccessible. It supports multiple metadata schemas, persistent identifiers (DOI, Handle), and interoperability protocols (OAI-PMH). Free, open-source, with a large global community. DSpace 7+ includes a modern Angular-based user interface. ### DuckDB - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/duckdb - **Source URL**: https://duckdb.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Fast, in-process analytical SQL database engine for querying large CSV, Parquet, and JSON datasets locally without server infrastructure - **Notes**: DuckDB is an open-source, in-process columnar SQL database engine designed for analytical queries (OLAP). Often described as the "SQLite for analytics," DuckDB requires no server setup or external dependencies; it runs embedded inside Python, R, Node.js, command-line shells, or directly in web browsers via WebAssembly. For data journalists, academic researchers, and civic analysts working with large open datasets (such as multi-gigabyte government census releases, procurement logs, or satellite-derived datasets), DuckDB allows blazing-fast SQL queries directly on remote or local CSV, Parquet, and JSON files without needing a dedicated database server. ### Dvara Research - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/dvara-research - **Source URL**: https://dvararesearch.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Economy, Welfare, Governance, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Proprietary - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 2008 - **Location**: Chennai, Tamil Nadu - **Summary**: Independent policy research on financial inclusion, household finance, social protection and consumer protection in India - **Notes**: Dvara Research studies how low-income households and small enterprises can access and use suitable financial services and social security. Its work spans household finance, financial-system design, digital finance, customer protection and social protection, combining policy research with field-based testing of practical interventions. The searchable repository includes research papers, policy and data briefs, consultation responses, primers, reports and tools. The material is freely available to read, but the site labels it all rights reserved rather than under an open licence. ### ECMWF ERA5 - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ecmwf-era5 - **Source URL**: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5 - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Water - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Copernicus Licence) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Fifth-generation global climate reanalysis from ECMWF — hourly atmospheric, land, and ocean variables from 1940 to near-present at 0.25° resolution - **Notes**: ERA5 is the de facto standard for global climate data in research and industry. It provides hourly estimates for hundreds of atmospheric, land-surface, and ocean-wave parameters at 0.25° (~31 km) resolution, from 1940 to within 5 days of real time. The ERA5-Land subset gives finer land-surface detail at 9 km. Undisputed as the most widely used gridded climate dataset for any region that lacks dense station networks — which includes most of India. ### Ecological Restoration Alliance - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ecological-restoration-alliance - **Source URL**: https://era-india.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Education - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Valparai, Tamil Nadu - **Summary**: Collaborative network for ecological restoration practice, learning, and open knowledge across Indian ecoregions. - **Notes**: ERA connects restoration practitioners across India for knowledge exchange and shared protocols. It builds shared learning and practice standards for ecological restoration across diverse Indian landscapes. ### Economic Survey of India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/economic-survey-of-india - **Source URL**: https://indiabudget.gov.in/economicsurvey/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual economic policy review by India’s Ministry of Finance with official analysis, forecasts and budget-linked sector data - **Notes**: The Economic Survey is the Government of India's flagship annual macro review and the first serious read of the next year's Union Budget context. It presents current fiscal and monetary conditions, sectoral performance, social programmes, agriculture, manufacturing, labour and inflation trends, plus medium-term structural analysis. For civic organisations it is often the cleanest place to identify policy signals before official budget and department papers are released. For researchers, the survey is useful for its consistent narrative framing of major reforms, state-level fiscal and growth trends, and long-run baseline estimates that can be paired with time-series from RBI or national ministries. ### Edelgive Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/edelgive-foundation - **Source URL**: https://www.edelgive.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Philanthropy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Grant-making to support grassroots NGOs with funding, capacity building, and sector collaboration. - **Notes**: EdelGive Foundation runs the GROW Fund, a multi-donor pooled funding vehicle for vetted grassroots organisations, and publishes the annual EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List. It combines unrestricted grants with organisational development support. ### Education For Employability - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/education-for-employability - **Source URL**: https://www.e2findia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Labour, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Support services for disadvantaged youth and rural entrepreneurs. - **Notes**: EFE bridges education, skill-building, and employment for underserved populations. Its programmes connect disadvantaged youth and rural entrepreneurs with the support services needed to access sustainable livelihood pathways. ### Efficient Ecosystem Protection - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/efficient-ecosystem-protection - **Source URL**: https://rainmatter.org/partners - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Education - **Geography**: India, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Pune, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Education-focused organisation in Pune working on environmental awareness. - **Notes**: Efficient Ecosystem Protection runs structured environmental education and awareness activities in Pune, engaging communities and schools in ecological awareness and action. ### eGramSwaraj - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/egramswaraj - **Source URL**: https://egramswaraj.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Governance, Public finance, Welfare, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Panchayat profiles, elected representatives, development plans, works, receipts, expenditure, accounts and audits - **Notes**: eGramSwaraj is the Ministry of Panchayati Raj's planning, accounting and monitoring system for rural local governments. Public reports cover panchayat profiles and elected representatives, Gram Panchayat Development Plans, activities and works, Finance Commission grants, receipts, expenditure, accounting closure, online payments, audits and sponsored schemes. The data is entered and maintained by panchayats and state departments, so reporting completeness is itself an important variable. The portal is designed for operational reporting rather than bulk research use, and its terms restrict reuse more than a conventional open-data licence. Check the selected plan year, panchayat level and reporting status before comparing places. ### Election Commission of India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/eci - **Source URL**: https://www.eci.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Elections, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official election results, electoral rolls, candidate affidavits and statistical reports for national and state elections - **Notes**: The Election Commission of India's data portal is one of the most comprehensive electoral data resources in the world. It publishes full results for every Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha election (candidate votes, party totals, constituency maps), electoral rolls with demographic breakdowns, candidate affidavits (assets, criminal cases, education), and detailed statistical reports on voter turnout by gender, age, and constituency. For researchers, the ECI data enables analysis of electoral behaviour, party system change, money in politics, and representation over multiple decades. The candidate affidavit data alone has supported hundreds of academic papers and investigative journalism projects. Most data is available as downloadable PDFs and CSVs. ### EM-DAT International Disaster Database - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/em-dat-international-disaster-database - **Source URL**: https://www.emdat.be/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Disasters, Climate, Health - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The global reference for disaster impact data — 27,000+ records of natural and technological disasters with deaths, affected people, and damage since 1900 - **Notes**: EM-DAT (Emergency Events Database), maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in Brussels, is the authoritative source for disaster frequency and impact statistics worldwide. For India, it records floods, cyclones, heatwaves, droughts, earthquakes, industrial accidents, and epidemics — with counts of deaths, affected people, and estimated economic damage. Used by the WHO, World Bank, and national disaster management agencies. Free registration required for full access. ### Ember Energy Data Explorer - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ember-energy-data-explorer - **Source URL**: https://ember-energy.org/data/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Energy, Climate, Economy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open electricity data for 200+ geographies — generation by source, capacity, emissions, and imports, with monthly data for key countries including India - **Notes**: Ember is the premier open-data think tank for electricity transitions. Its Electricity Data Explorer provides yearly generation by source (coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, bioenergy, other renewables), installed capacity, demand, emissions intensity, and per-capita generation for 200+ geographies. For India, monthly data is available from 2018. Ember's Global Electricity Review and India-specific reports are the most-cited open-source references on power-sector decarbonisation. Particularly valuable because Indian power data is fragmented across CEA, POSOCO, NPP, and state utilities — Ember does the integration. ### Engaging Indian States - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/engaging-indian-states - **Source URL**: https://indianstates.csis.org/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Governance, Economy, Energy, Public finance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Knowledge portal tracking policy, regulatory changes, and economic developments across Indian states, with in-depth sector analysis and state newsletters - **Notes**: Engaging Indian States is an analytical platform produced by the Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and designed by the Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab. The portal focuses on the economic and regulatory authority of India's subnational governments, tracking state-level reforms and developments that central government analyses frequently miss. Features include: - **State-by-State Profiles**: Systematic coverage across all 28 Indian states and 8 union territories, summarizing state leadership, key growth metrics, economic priorities, and foreign direct investment trends. - **Sector Analysis**: Tracking policy and regulatory changes across critical sectors including power and renewable energy (solar, wind, grid management, discom viability), center-state financial relations, healthcare systems, industrial policy, and transportation infrastructure. - **Dispatches & Newsletters**: Periodic newsletters and expert commentary detailing subnational competitive federalism, state budget shifts, and cross-border partnership opportunities. ### env.wiki - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/env-wiki - **Source URL**: https://env.wiki - **Kind**: Directory - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Agriculture - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Directory of organisations working on environment and sustainability across India, sorted into some thirty-six categories - **Notes**: Published by Rainmatter Foundation. Narrower than this index and deeper inside it — if you want environmental work specifically, start there rather than here. ### ERA5-Land - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/era5-land - **Source URL**: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-land - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Land, Agriculture, Water - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Copernicus Licence) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Enhanced-resolution land-surface reanalysis — temperature, rainfall, soil moisture, and evaporation at 9 km, from 1950 to near-present, complementary to ERA5 - **Notes**: ERA5-Land is the land-focused, higher-resolution sibling of ERA5. At 9 km (versus ERA5's 31 km), it provides finer detail for temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, evaporation, runoff, and other land-surface variables from 1950 onwards. For India, the resolution improvement is significant: ERA5-Land better captures the Western Ghats orographic rainfall gradient, local temperature variations, and soil moisture patterns that coarser reanalysis smooths out. It uses the same underlying atmospheric forcing as ERA5 but runs a dedicated land-surface model at higher resolution. Accessible through the same CDS API. ### eSankhyiki - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/esankhyiki - **Source URL**: https://esankhyiki.mospi.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Labour, Demography - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: MoSPI's own data portal — national accounts, CPI, industrial production, labour force and consumption surveys, with an API - **Notes**: Launched 2024, replacing the scattered PDF-and-press-release habit with two modules: the [Data Catalogue](https://esankhyiki.mospi.gov.in/catalogue-main) of 2,291-odd datasets across seven products (National Accounts, CPI, IIP, ASI, PLFS, HCES, MIS), and Macro Indicators giving ten-year time series you can filter, download or pull over an API. Around 1.7 million records in total. ### Ethos Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ethos-foundation - **Source URL**: https://ethosfoundation.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Housing, Cities, Education - **Geography**: India, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Strengthening design education around architecture and sustainability. - **Notes**: Ethos Foundation runs ACEDGE, an e-learning platform for architecture, construction, engineering, and design professionals in South Asia. Its Arcause initiative galvanises architecture and design professionals towards social responsibility and nation-building. ### ezesri - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ezesri - **Source URL**: https://ezesri.com - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Python toolkit, CLI, and web app for extracting features from Esri REST APIs and searching 24,000+ public government GIS layers - **Notes**: ezesri is an open-source geospatial data extraction tool and searchable directory created by data journalist Matt Stiles to extract layers from municipal and institutional ArcGIS REST API endpoints. Available as a zero-install browser app, Python SDK, and CLI, it handles Esri record pagination automatically, supports spatial bounding-box and SQL filtering, and exports features into GeoParquet, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, and Shapefiles. The accompanying directory indexes over 24,000 public government feature services worldwide. ### FAO flagship publications - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/fao-flagship-publications - **Source URL**: https://www.fao.org/publications/fao-flagship-publications/en - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Agriculture, Climate, Environment, Economy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: FAO flagship series on food systems, fisheries, climate resilience and market outlooks for food security work - **Notes**: This is the central entry for FAO’s recurring flagship publications used by civic analysts. It includes agricultural output outlooks, climate-linked production risk reporting, fisheries sustainability, and commodity and food security diagnostics that are difficult to reproduce from raw administrative data. For researchers and civil society, the FAO flagship set is useful because it normalises definitions and methodology across countries and years, making cross-country comparative work and policy tracking much cleaner. For India-focused teams, it helps benchmark sector trends against developing-country peers and global price and climate shocks. ### FAOSTAT - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/faostat - **Source URL**: https://www.fao.org/faostat - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Agriculture, Nutrition, Climate - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Partly open - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: FAO's food and agriculture statistics — production, trade, land use, food balance sheets and emissions, by country since 1961 - **Notes**: Food balance sheets are the underrated part — they let you get at what a country actually eats rather than what it grows. ### Farm 2 Food Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/farm-2-food-foundation - **Source URL**: https://farm2food.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Assam - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Guwahati, Assam - **Summary**: Training local communities for productive, change-oriented development in Assam. - **Notes**: Farm2Food Foundation builds cadres of women entrepreneurs — solar sakhi, krishi sakhi, and pashu sakhi — for community-led development in northeast India. Its model combines agricultural training with women's enterprise development for a prosperous and peaceful region. ### Farmers for Forests - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/farmers-for-forests - **Source URL**: https://farmersforforests.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Environment - **Geography**: India, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Pune, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Carbon-financed agroforestry and biodiversity restoration with smallholder farmers. - **Notes**: Farmers for Forests uses carbon markets to fund tree planting and agroforestry on smallholder farms. Its model channels carbon credit revenue to farmers while restoring biodiversity and soil health. ### Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/federal-reserve-economic-data-fred - **Source URL**: https://fred.stlouisfed.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance - **Geography**: North America - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: FRED provides downloadable economic and financial time series from many official sources, with graphs, API access, and frequent U.S. macro updates - **Notes**: FRED is a large multi-source database run by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, with a broad range of macroeconomic and financial series. It supports fast discovery by topic and source, and has one of the most used public APIs for downloading U.S. and international data. In practice, FRED is most valuable for cross-series time-series workflows: building consistent indicator sets, checking revisions, and pairing releases (jobs, inflation, debt, rates) with research or reporting. ### Fields of View - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/fields-of-view - **Source URL**: https://fieldsofview.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Land - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Tools and simulations to understand complexity in policy landscapes. - **Notes**: Fields of View is unusually explicit about its artefact stack: E-QLT (household-vulnerability simulation), Jee-van (data-collection game), Weather Wane (climate-risk game), and The Waymaker (storytelling game). Its PolicyLab researches and designs games at the intersection of art, social sciences, and technology, while School of Policy trains practitioners to use these tools. ### FISE - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/fise - **Source URL**: https://fise.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Labour - **Geography**: India, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Supporting social entrepreneurs to develop and scale businesses. - **Notes**: FISE provides incubation and acceleration support for early-stage social enterprises in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Its model combines business mentoring with social mission alignment for scalable impact. ### Flint Chart - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/flint-chart - **Source URL**: https://github.com/microsoft/flint-chart - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Media - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Microsoft's open-source visualisation language for the AI era — lets AI agents reliably create expressive, good-looking charts from simple human-editable specs - **Notes**: Flint is a chart specification language from Microsoft Research that sits at the intersection of AI and data visualisation. Instead of writing imperative code (like D3) or tweaking a GUI (like Datawrapper), you describe what the chart should look like in a declarative, human-readable spec — and Flint renders it. The key innovation is that Flint specs are designed to be reliably generated by LLMs: the language is constrained enough that an AI agent can produce valid, attractive charts without hallucinating invalid configurations, while remaining readable enough that a human can tweak the result. For civic technologists building AI-powered tools that need to generate data visualisations, Flint provides a clean bridge between natural language and publishable charts. MIT-licensed, from Microsoft Research. ### Flourish - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/flourish - **Source URL**: https://flourish.studio/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Media, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Proprietary - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Create animated, interactive data visualisations and stories — bar races, network graphs, 3D maps, with a generous free tier for journalism and nonprofits - **Notes**: Flourish is the tool behind most of the animated data visualisations you see in news media — bar chart races, animated line charts, network graphs, 3D maps, survey explorers, and interactive scrollytelling stories. For Indian journalists and nonprofits, the free tier provides unlimited public visualisations with full access to all template types. The platform handles Indian data well and supports embedding in any website. Particularly good for making complex trends accessible to non-technical audiences — for example, animating how district-level NFHS indicators changed between survey rounds, or creating an interactive explorer of state budget allocations. The companion Story feature lets you combine multiple visualisations into a single narrative. ### Forest Survey of India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/forest-survey-india - **Source URL**: https://fsi.nic.in/indexx.php - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Land, Environment, Climate - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The India State of Forest Report — biennial satellite assessment of forest and tree cover, state by state and district by district - **Notes**: The Forest Survey of India (FSI) publishes the biennial India State of Forest Report (ISFR), the official assessment of India's forest and tree cover. It provides state and district-level data on forest cover (very dense, moderately dense, open), tree cover outside forests, mangrove cover, growing stock, carbon stock, and forest fire monitoring. For researchers, ISFR is the standard reference for Indian forest statistics — though with well-documented limitations around the definition of forest (which includes plantations, orchards, and even bamboo groves), making it more an assessment of tree cover than natural forest. FSI also produces thematic maps and the e-Green Watch portal for real-time forest diversion monitoring. ### ForRivers - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/forrivers - **Source URL**: https://forrivers.life/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Water, Environment, Climate, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Interactive basin-scale river maps, ecological storytelling, and historical baseline documentation for living river recovery - **Notes**: ForRivers (forrivers.life) is an immersive digital commons and ecological storytelling initiative by the Paani Earth Foundation that investigates rivers as connected, living ecological systems. The platform maps river networks from origin forests and headwaters down to floodplains and urban streams. Through interactive cartography, field photography, hydrological logs, and historical baseline comparisons (focusing on the Cauvery Basin and Bengaluru's urban river corridors such as the Arkavathi and Vrishabhavathi), ForRivers documents forgotten waterways to counter shifting baseline syndrome and support community-led river restoration. ### Forum For the Future India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/forum-for-the-future-india - **Source URL**: https://www.forumforthefuture.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Accelerating the shift towards a just and regenerative future through systems change. - **Notes**: Forum for the Future runs systems change labs and applies futures thinking to sustainability challenges. Its India practice focuses on climate and sustainability transitions through collaborative scenario planning and multi-stakeholder innovation. ### FOSS United - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/foss-united - **Source URL**: https://fossunited.org/ - **Kind**: Community - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: India - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Promoting and strengthening the Free and Open Source Software ecosystem in India through community building, events, conferences, and project nurturing - **Notes**: FOSS United Foundation promotes and strengthens the Free and Open Source Software ecosystem in India. It organises IndiaFOSS, FOSS Hack, local chapters and meetups, supports maintainers, and conducts research and advocacy around technology policy and open digital infrastructure. Its grants programme funds Indian FOSS projects, maintainers, events, open data and other digital commons work. The grants catalogue records supported projects, while Forklore profiles Indian maintainers and the software they build. FOSS United is also part of OASIS, a network working to increase the use of open technology in social-impact organisations. ### Foundation for Ecological Security - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/foundation-for-ecological-security - **Source URL**: https://fes.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Land, Environment, Water, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit working to restore and protect common land, community pastures, and water bodies through village-level governance across India - **Notes**: The Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) was established in 2001 in Anand, Gujarat, dedicated to the conservation of land, forest, and water commons through community-led institutional governance. FES assists village panchayats and Gram Sabhas across 10+ states to secure collective tenure over village pastures, revenue wastelands, and community forest resources. FES built the India Observatory, an open geospatial data platform combining satellite imagery and administrative datasets to help rural communities and district administrations monitor pasture regeneration, groundwater recharge, and climate resilience. ### Foundation For MSME Clusters - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/foundation-for-msme-clusters - **Source URL**: https://www.fmc.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Economy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Promotion and development of MSMEs through clusters. - **Notes**: FMC provides technical assistance, capacity building, and policy advocacy for MSME clusters across India. Its cluster-based approach builds competitiveness through geographic and sectoral concentration. ### Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/frlht - **Source URL**: https://www.frlht.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Health, Environment, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 1991 - **Summary**: Research organisation conserving medicinal plants and documenting the knowledge and practice of Indian health traditions - **Notes**: FRLHT is a Bengaluru research organisation working to document and revitalise India's medicinal heritage. Its work brings together traditional health knowledge, medicinal-plant conservation, community practice and research across Ayurveda, life sciences and public health, including digital documentation and geospatial knowledge about threatened species. It is recognised by government science bodies as a scientific research organisation and has served as a national centre of excellence for medicinal plants and traditional knowledge. Some of its databases and publications are maintained through the associated ENVIS centre, so users should distinguish the organisation from individual catalogues hosted under its domains. ### FPOhub - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/fpohub - **Source URL**: https://fpohub.com/ - **Kind**: Community - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Economy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Resource and discussion hub for building farmer producer organisations, rural livelihoods and sustainable agricultural markets - **Notes**: FPOhub is an initiative of the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and Grameen Academy intended as a shared resource for Farmer Producer Organisations. It collects guidance, policy material, studies and discussion around forming and strengthening farmer collectives, connecting them to markets and building ecologically and economically sustainable rural livelihoods. The site combines a resource library with a community forum rather than acting as an official registry of every FPO. Several prominent resources are older and download metadata can be incomplete, so users should verify policy documents against current government sources and check dates before relying on operational guidance. ### Frameworks for Public Policy - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/frameworks-for-public-policy - **Source URL**: https://frameworks.pranaykotas.com/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Governance, Public finance, Economy, Education - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Plain-language mental models for analysing policy problems, choosing interventions and understanding political constraints - **Notes**: Frameworks for Public Policy is a growing reference library of mental models drawn from books, papers and more than 300 editions of the *Anticipating the Unintended* newsletter. Its short, plain-language entries help readers define policy problems, distinguish outcomes from spending, choose policy instruments and account for political and institutional constraints. The collection spans public policy, political thinking, public finance, foreign policy and geopolitics, society, and general-purpose models. Readers can browse by subject or describe a problem to find relevant frameworks. It is curated by Pranay Kotasthane and published as a Takshashila Institution initiative. ### Frankfurter - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/frankfurter - **Source URL**: https://frankfurter.dev/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL-3.0-or-later) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source exchange rates API tracking daily currency reference data from 84 central banks covering 201 currencies since 1948 - **Notes**: Frankfurter is a free, open-source currency data and foreign exchange API that publishes daily exchange rate time series from 84 central banks and monetary authorities without API keys or usage quotas. Covering 201 fiat currencies with historical depth back to 1948, the platform provides blended reference rates, provider-specific filtering (e.g., ECB or Reserve Bank of India), NDJSON/CSV streaming, and native Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations for agentic workflows. ### Frappe - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/frappe - **Source URL**: https://frappe.io/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Labour - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL v3) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source software company behind ERPNext and Frappe Framework — the most widely used FOSS ERP, deployed by businesses, nonprofits, and governments worldwide - **Notes**: Frappe is one of India's most significant open-source software companies. Its flagship product, ERPNext, is a full-featured enterprise resource planning system covering accounting, inventory, HR, manufacturing, CRM, and project management — used by thousands of organisations worldwide. The underlying Frappe Framework is a low-code, metadata-driven platform that lets non-programmers build custom applications through a web interface. Frappe also builds Frappe Cloud (managed hosting), Frappe Books (free desktop accounting), and Frappe Insights (business intelligence). For Indian nonprofits and social enterprises, ERPNext's free and open-source nature makes it one of the few viable alternatives to expensive proprietary ERP systems. The company is based in Mumbai and maintains an active open-source community on GitHub. ### FSSAI Food Safety Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/fssai-food-safety-data - **Source URL**: https://fssai.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Health, Nutrition, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Food sample testing, adulteration rates, enforcement actions, and state-wise food safety compliance data from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India - **Notes**: FSSAI publishes annual reports with state-wise data on food samples collected, tested, found non-conforming, and adulterated; civil and criminal enforcement actions; licensing and registration statistics; and foodborne illness outbreak data. The FoSCoS portal adds real-time food business operator licensing data. ### GDAL - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/gdal - **Source URL**: https://gdal.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Land, Environment - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The foundational library for geospatial data conversion — translate between any GIS format, reproject coordinates, and process raster/vector data at scale - **Notes**: GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) is the Swiss Army knife of geospatial data — the invisible engine underneath QGIS, Google Earth Engine, PostGIS, and virtually every other GIS tool. It provides command-line utilities that convert between any geospatial format (gdal_translate, ogr2ogr), reproject coordinates, merge and crop rasters, build virtual mosaics, and process data at scale. For Indian researchers, GDAL is essential infrastructure: convert Survey of India shapefiles from an obscure projection to WGS84, merge hundreds of Sentinel-2 scenes into a single mosaic, clip a global climate dataset to India's boundary, or convert between GeoJSON and SHP formats. The command-line interface makes it scriptable for batch processing. Free, open-source, and actively maintained. ### GeoJSON Map Viewer - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/geojson-map-viewer - **Source URL**: https://tools.simonwillison.net/geojson - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Cities, Environment - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Browser-based OpenStreetMap tool for inspecting, styling, compositing, and exporting multi-layer GeoJSON vectors as PNGs - **Notes**: GeoJSON Map Viewer is a client-side cartography tool built by Simon Willison that allows users to quickly inspect, style, and composite geographic vector data over OpenStreetMap tiles. The tool operates entirely within the browser with no backend server. Users can paste GeoJSON, load files from CORS URLs or GitHub Gists, customize colors and opacities across multiple layered shapes, save workspace state in URL hash fragments, and export high-resolution PNG maps. ### GeoLibre - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/geolibre - **Source URL**: https://geolibre.app - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Land, Environment, Cities - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Free, private-by-design GIS for visualising, editing, and analysing geospatial data across browsers, desktops, mobile, and Jupyter - **Notes**: GeoLibre is a community-driven platform providing free and open geospatial data, tools, and resources for India. It hosts shapefiles, geojson files, and spatial datasets contributed by the Indian geospatial community — including administrative boundaries, infrastructure layers, and environmental data that are often hard to find or expensive through official channels. For civic technologists and researchers, GeoLibre fills a critical gap: while the Survey of India provides official products, GeoLibre offers community-curated, ready-to-use spatial data that is free of cost and licensing restrictions. ### Gephi - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/gephi - **Source URL**: https://gephi.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL v3) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source network analysis and visualisation — explore connections in social networks, organisational relationships, trade flows, and citation patterns - **Notes**: Gephi is the premier open-source tool for network analysis — the kind of tool you use when you want to understand relationships, not just individual entities. It handles networks of tens of millions of nodes and edges, with algorithms for community detection, centrality measurement, and layout. For Indian researchers, Gephi enables analysis of social networks (who connects to whom in a community), organisational relationships (funding flows between donors and NGOs), trade networks (which states trade with which others), co-authorship patterns, and citation networks. The interactive visualisation makes patterns visible: clusters, bridges, hubs, and outliers jump out visually. Free, open-source, cross-platform, with an active plugin ecosystem. ### Ghost - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ghost - **Source URL**: https://ghost.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Media, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source publishing and newsletter platform for independent journalists, policy publications, and research collectives - **Notes**: Ghost is an open-source modern publishing platform built in Node.js by the non-profit Ghost Foundation. It combines a clean Markdown and rich-card writing editor, built-in email newsletter distribution, audience management, and subscription support. Ghost is widely adopted by independent investigative newsrooms, policy research collectives, and public-interest writers seeking full data ownership and clean reader experiences without algorithmic mediation or platform lock-in. Ghost can be self-hosted for free or hosted on managed non-profit infrastructure. ### Glific - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/glific - **Source URL**: https://glific.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Health, Education - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL v3) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source WhatsApp platform for nonprofits — two-way messaging, chatbots, and programme management on the channel beneficiaries already use - **Notes**: Glific is a purpose-built WhatsApp communication platform for Indian social sector organisations. It lets nonprofits run two-way messaging programmes — sending health information, education content, emergency alerts, or programme updates — through WhatsApp, the platform that 500M+ Indians already use daily. Features include chatbot flows, broadcast messaging, contact management, and integration with data collection tools. Built by Project Tech4Dev with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other funders, Glific is specifically designed for the Indian context: multilingual, works with low-end smartphones, and respects data privacy. The platform is open-source (AGPL v3) and can be self-hosted. ### Global Burden of Disease Results - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-burden-of-disease-results - **Source URL**: https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Health, Demography - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Comparable estimates of mortality, disability, and causes of disease across 200+ countries and over time — the standard reference for global health comparisons - **Notes**: The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, coordinated by IHME, is the world's largest systematic effort to quantify health loss. For India, GBD provides state-level estimates of mortality, cause of death, disease prevalence, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and risk factor attribution — comparable across states and over time from 1990. This is the dataset behind headlines about India's disease burden shifting from communicable to non-communicable diseases. The India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative publishes dedicated reports, but the global GBD Results Tool gives you the underlying data to make your own comparisons. ### Global Carbon Budget - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-carbon-budget - **Source URL**: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Energy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The authoritative annual budget of CO₂ sources and sinks — fossil fuel emissions, land-use change, and ocean/land carbon uptake from the Global Carbon Project - **Notes**: The GCB is the reference dataset cited in every IPCC report and UNFCCC Global Stocktake. It reconciles emissions from fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and land-use change against the measured growth rate of atmospheric CO₂ and estimates of ocean and land carbon sinks. Country-level fossil CO₂ data for India goes back to 1959. Companion products include the Global Methane Budget and Global Nitrous Oxide Budget. ### Global Drought Observatory - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-drought-observatory - **Source URL**: https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gdo/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Climate, Disasters, Agriculture, Water - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The EU's global drought monitoring system — precipitation, soil moisture, vegetation stress, and drought risk indices updated every 10 days at 0.1° resolution - **Notes**: The GDO provides near-real-time drought monitoring and early warning globally. Its Combined Drought Indicator integrates precipitation anomalies, soil moisture deficit, and satellite-measured vegetation stress into a single drought severity map updated every 10 days. For India, it provides continuous drought risk monitoring at 0.1° resolution — particularly useful for tracking monsoon deficits, groundwater stress, and agricultural drought onset before official declarations. The risk of drought impact layer adds sectoral exposure for agriculture and population. ### Global Energy Monitor - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-energy-monitor - **Source URL**: https://globalenergymonitor.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Energy, Climate, Environment - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open datasets mapping energy infrastructure — power plants, coal mines, solar farms, wind, oil and gas, and steel facilities, all at the facility level - **Notes**: GEM maintains facility-level open datasets of real-world energy infrastructure, and this is genuinely transformative for environmental journalism. The Global Integrated Power Tracker covers 35,000+ power plants globally; the Global Coal Mine Tracker maps 4,300+ mines; the Global Solar and Wind Power Trackers cover utility-scale renewable projects. For India, every coal plant (including planned, under construction, operating, and retired), coal mine, solar park, wind farm, and steel plant is individually identified with location, capacity, ownership, and status. Researchers can work at the facility level rather than merely the country level. ### Global Findex Database - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-findex-database - **Source URL**: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/globalfindex - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Technology, Gender - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Household-level data on financial inclusion — bank accounts, savings, credit, digital payments, and financial resilience — for 140+ countries including India - **Notes**: Global Findex is the world's most comprehensive dataset on how people save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. The 2025 edition adds modules on digital connectivity, mobile money, and financial resilience. For India, it captures the dramatic expansion of bank account ownership through Jan Dhan, the UPI revolution in digital payments, and persistent gender gaps in financial access. The microdata (individual respondent level) is available through the World Bank Microdata Library. Combine with NFHS or PLFS microdata to study the intersection of financial inclusion with health, education, or labour outcomes. ### Global Forest Watch - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-forest-watch - **Source URL**: https://www.globalforestwatch.org - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Land, Climate, Environment - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Washington, DC - **Summary**: Near-real-time satellite monitoring of forest loss, with alerts you can subscribe to for a specific area - **Notes**: Global Forest Watch (GFW), run by the World Resources Institute, is the closest thing to a real-time dashboard for the world's forests. It combines satellite data from GLAD (University of Maryland) with national forest statistics, concession maps, and user-submitted reports. For India, GFW is most useful for tracking forest loss alerts — you can subscribe to near-real-time notifications for a specific district, protected area, or watershed, and receive an alert when tree cover loss is detected. This makes it a powerful accountability tool: researchers, journalists, and activists can independently verify deforestation claims rather than relying solely on government FSI biennial reports. The data is free, open, and accessible through both the web platform and an API. ### Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-health-data-exchange-ghdx - **Source URL**: https://ghdx.healthdata.org/ - **Kind**: Directory - **Topics**: Health, Demography - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: IHME's catalogue of health datasets — surveys, disease registries, geospatial data, and Global Burden of Disease results, searchable by country and topic - **Notes**: The GHDx is the data catalogue of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. It is the best starting point for discovering health data for any country — search by geography (India), topic, or data type and find microdata, survey results, disease estimates, and administrative records. For India, the GHDx indexes hundreds of datasets including state-level disease burden studies, NFHS, SRS, civil registration, and cause-of-death data from multiple sources. The Global Burden of Disease results are accessible through a companion tool (vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results). ### Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-human-settlement-layer-ghsl - **Source URL**: https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Cities, Housing, Demography, Land - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Maps built-up areas, settlement types, and population density over four decades — essential for studying how cities expand through time - **Notes**: GHSL is produced by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and is one of the most useful datasets for civic researchers studying urbanisation. It provides gridded data on built-up areas, settlement typologies (from rural hamlets to megacities), and population distribution at 100 m to 1 km resolution, with time series from 1975 to 2030 (projected). For India, GHSL lets you trace the expansion of every city, quantify peri-urban growth, and map where people live in relation to infrastructure — all in a consistent global framework. The GHSL Data Package 2023 covers 1975-2030 in 5-year steps. ### Global Humanitarian Overview - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-humanitarian-overview - **Source URL**: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4083203?ln=en - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Disasters, Welfare, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual UN OCHA publication on humanitarian need, response plans and global financing for crisis-affected people - **Notes**: Global Humanitarian Overview is the annual annual summary for global humanitarian need and response capacity built from multiple OCHA products. For researchers and nonprofits, it is most useful for funding context, identifying priority countries and framing macro-level needs versus available resources. It is not granular like district dashboards, but it gives the narrative and evidence baseline for grant proposals, policy letters and advocacy around humanitarian attention. ### Global Macro Database - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-macro-database - **Source URL**: https://www.globalmacrodata.com/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Partly open - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Harmonised macroeconomic dataset — 46 variables, 239 countries, 160 sources, from 1086 to present with forecasts, free for academic and nonprofit research - **Notes**: The Global Macro Database (GMD), published as an NBER working paper by Müller, Xu, Lehbib, and Chen (2025), is a landmark effort to solve the single biggest bottleneck in cross-country economic research: macroeconomic data is scattered across hundreds of sources with inconsistent definitions, units, and coverage. GMD harmonises 46 variables (GDP, inflation, government finance, trade, unemployment, and more) from 160 sources — both historical archives and current databases — into a single, clean, panel dataset covering 239 countries from 1086 to the present, with forecasts to 2030. For India researchers, GMD provides a one-click starting point for any cross-country comparison involving Indian macro data, with Stata, R, and Python packages available. Free for academic and non-profit use; commercial use requires a licence. Updated quarterly. Trusted by 8,000+ researchers and policymakers. ### Global Report on Food Crises - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/global-report-on-food-crises - **Source URL**: https://www.fao.org/state-of-food-security-nutrition - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Agriculture, Nutrition, Climate, Environment - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: FAO’s flagship annual assessment of hunger, food insecurity and climate-related food system stress - **Notes**: The Global Report on Food Crises is the FAO’s authoritative annual signal on food availability stress, price shocks, climate events, and policy responses at country level. It is one of the clearest global frames for advocacy work around drought, conflict-related supply shocks, and social protection response design. For India, it is most useful alongside state-level crop and poverty indicators to evaluate whether food inflation and household resilience risks are converging in the same time periods. ### Google Agricultural Understanding Platform - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/google-agricultural-understanding-platform - **Source URL**: https://agri.withgoogle.com/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Agriculture, Technology, Land, Water - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Proprietary - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Google platform using satellite imagery and ML to delineate farm field boundaries and monitor crop seasons at individual field level - **Notes**: Google's Agricultural Understanding Platform organizes planetary agricultural information at the individual farm field level using high-resolution Earth observation satellite imagery, geospatial data, and machine learning models. The platform provides two primary capabilities via developer APIs: - **Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU):** Automatically detects and delineates discrete farm field boundaries at scale, computes field acreage, and maps water bodies and tree cover for drought contingency planning. - **Agricultural Monitoring and Event Detection (AMED):** Delivers in-season, chronological crop classification, planting/harvesting cycle detection, and phenological monitoring across growing seasons. Outputs integrate directly into Google Earth Engine and BigQuery to support precision agritech advisory, public agricultural policy, and farm credit-risk assessment. ### Google DeepMind WeatherLab - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/weatherlab - **Source URL**: https://deepmind.google.com/science/weatherlab - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Climate, Disasters, Environment, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Partly open - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Interactive AI weather observatory and cyclone tracker showcasing WeatherNext 3, GenCast, and GraphCast global forecasts - **Notes**: WeatherLab is an experimental atmospheric research platform by Google DeepMind and Google Research that visualizes predictions from state-of-the-art machine learning weather forecasting models. The platform provides unified spatial layers for temperature, wind, and precipitation, and specializes in multi-ensemble tracking of tropical cyclones. It operationalizes foundational models including GraphCast, GenCast, and the flagship WeatherNext 3 ensemble system. ### Google Earth Engine - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/google-earth-engine - **Source URL**: https://earthengine.google.com/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Environment, Technology, Climate, Land - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Proprietary - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Planetary-scale cloud computing platform pairing a 90+ petabyte Earth observation catalog with parallel geospatial analysis APIs - **Notes**: Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a cloud-computing platform designed for planetary-scale environmental monitoring and geospatial data science. GEE pairs an analysis-ready repository of over 90 petabytes of continuous historical satellite observations (Landsat, Sentinel, MODIS, ERA5 climate reanalysis, and global elevation models) with Google's distributed computing infrastructure. It provides Python and JavaScript APIs for pixel-level time-series analysis, land-use mapping, deforestation monitoring, and water surface tracking. ### Google Earth Engine Data Catalog - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/google-earth-engine-data-catalog - **Source URL**: https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Land, Agriculture - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Google's multi-petabyte catalog of geospatial datasets — satellite imagery, climate, terrain, land cover, and population data — queryable at planetary scale - **Notes**: Earth Engine hosts over 1,000 public datasets: full Landsat and Sentinel archives, MODIS, ERA5, CHIRPS rainfall, WorldPop, Global Forest Change, Dynamic World land cover, and dozens more. What makes it unique is that the data lives alongside a planetary-scale compute service — you don't download petabytes; you query it in place. Free for research, education, and non-commercial use. The de facto platform for geospatial analysis at scale. ### Google Flood Hub - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/google-flood-hub - **Source URL**: https://sites.research.google/floods/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Disasters, Water, Climate, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Daily AI forecasts of riverine flooding up to seven days ahead, with gauges, water trends, alerts and inundation maps worldwide - **Notes**: Google Flood Hub maps current river conditions and forecasts from Google's riverine flood models, including higher-confidence physical gauges and wider coverage from virtual gauges. Forecasts extend up to seven days, while inundation-probability layers are available in supported areas. It does not cover flash or coastal floods, does not produce urban flood maps, and should not be used as the sole source during an emergency; check government and local weather-service warnings as well. ### GOONJ - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/goonj - **Source URL**: https://goonj.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Turning underused urban material into a rural development resource with dignity. - **Notes**: GOONJ's signature Cloth for Work model rewards locally led development work with dignified material support instead of treating money as the only development input. Key initiatives include MY Pad (cloth-based sanitary pad system), School to School (education material transfer), Rahat (disaster response), and Not Just a Piece of Cloth (menstrual health). ### Goya Media - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/goya-media - **Source URL**: https://www.goya.in/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Media - **Geography**: India - **Summary**: Award-winning food publication celebrating regional cuisines and home cooks — building an open-source archive of India's heirloom recipes - **Notes**: Goya is a dynamic media company focused on celebrating food, culture, and the stories that shape them. Its award-winning publication, The Goya Journal, champions regional cuisines and home cooks through photo essays, podcasts, videos, and long-form narratives. The 1000 Kitchens project documents heirloom recipes from across India as an open-source digital archive of intangible culinary heritage. Samagata Foundation supports 1000 Kitchens to scale its impact. ### Gram Manchitra - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/gram-manchitra - **Source URL**: https://grammanchitra.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Governance, Cities, Land - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Spatial planning for Panchayati Raj — maps existing infrastructure, plans new facilities, and links to eGramSwaraj financial data at the Gram Panchayat level - **Notes**: Gram Manchitra is the geographic complement to eGramSwaraj's financial data. It enables Gram Panchayats to map existing assets (schools, anganwadis, health centres, roads, water sources), plan new infrastructure, and visualise development works spatially. For researchers, it provides a window into how local infrastructure is distributed and planned at the most granular governance level. The spatial data layers include administrative boundaries, infrastructure points, and natural features at Panchayat scale. Combine with eGramSwaraj financial data for a complete picture of local governance. ### Gram Vikas - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/gram-vikas - **Source URL**: https://gramvikas.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Environment - **Geography**: India, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bhubaneswar, Odisha - **Summary**: Water conservation and afforestation for rural development, with a distinctive all-or-none community model. - **Notes**: Gram Vikas is known for MANTRA (Movement and Action Network for Transformation of Rural Areas), an all-or-none model for inclusion, equity, and cost-sharing in village water systems. Water and sanitation act as an entry point for wider work on livelihoods, governance, health, and education. ### Gramvaani - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/gramvaani - **Source URL**: https://gramvaani.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Technology, Media - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Participatory media and voice-tech platforms for communities excluded from mainstream information systems. - **Notes**: Gramvaani's Mobile Vaani platform is a participatory media infrastructure that lets underserved communities surface problems, access information, and organise through voice and digital tools. It treats communication as civic infrastructure for collective agency. ### GST Revenue Statistics - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/gst-revenue-statistics - **Source URL**: https://gstcouncil.gov.in/all-gst-revenue - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Monthly GST revenue collections — gross, state-wise, category-wise, and return filing compliance — from the GST Council - **Notes**: The government's own high-frequency pulse of formal economic activity. Monthly releases include total GST revenue, CGST, SGST, IGST, cess, state-wise breakup, and return filing counts. The GSTN portal (gst.gov.in) also publishes detailed registration and filing statistics. Arguably the single most-watched monthly economic release in India after CPI. ### Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/gurukula-botanical-sanctuary - **Source URL**: https://gbsanctuary.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Education - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Periya, Kerala - **Summary**: Community-based plant conservation, habitat restoration, and ecological learning in the Western Ghats. - **Notes**: Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary conserves over 1,800 plant species in a restored rainforest setting in the Western Ghats. Its residency-based ecological learning model combines hands-on conservation practice with community living, and its seed bank supports endemic and threatened species restoration. ### Habitat for Humanity India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/habitat-for-humanity-india - **Source URL**: https://habitatindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment, Housing - **Geography**: India, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Odisha - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Faridabad, Haryana - **Summary**: Research on urban green spaces and human-wildlife interactions, plus affordable housing. - **Notes**: Habitat for Humanity India builds and repairs homes for vulnerable families and provides rapid shelter following natural disasters. Its community-driven housing model combines volunteer labour, microfinance, and technical support. ### Hasiru Dala - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/hasiru-dala - **Source URL**: https://hasirudala.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Labour, Cities, Environment, Welfare - **Geography**: Karnataka, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Social organisation integrating informal waste pickers into municipal solid waste systems, circular economy, and social security in Karnataka - **Notes**: Hasiru Dala ("Green Force") is a membership-based organisation of waste workers, scrap dealers, and informal recyclers based in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It works to integrate informal waste pickers into municipal solid waste management systems by securing official identity cards, institutionalising fair wages, and establishing community-run Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCCs). The organisation has secured municipal recognition and occupational social security for thousands of waste pickers across Karnataka, transforming informal collection into recognised green livelihoods. Hasiru Dala also conducts policy advocacy for extended producer responsibility (EPR) and inclusive circular economy frameworks. ### Himalaya Unnati Mission - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/himalaya-unnati-mission - **Source URL**: https://savehimalayas.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Labour - **Geography**: India, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Dehradun, Uttarakhand - **Summary**: Himalayan conservation, livelihoods, and ecological stewardship rooted in mountain communities. - **Notes**: HUM packages mountain stewardship into a public mission format, combining a dedicated secretariat structure with regional convenings like Himalaya Day. It frames conservation, livelihoods, and cultural rootedness as inseparable parts of a Himalayan development pathway. ### HMIS - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/hmis - **Source URL**: https://hmis.mohfw.gov.in - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Health - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Health Management Information System — monthly facility-level reporting on maternal health, immunisation and service delivery - **Notes**: The Health Management Information System (HMIS) portal, run by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, provides monthly facility-level health service delivery data from public health facilities across India. It covers maternal health (ANC, institutional deliveries), child health (immunisation), family planning, and disease control programmes. For researchers, HMIS is the most granular source of routine health service data — however, data quality is uneven across states and facilities, and the portal can be difficult to navigate. The data is primarily used to track health system performance and for state-level health planning. HMIS data complements the periodic NFHS and SRS surveys with higher-frequency (monthly) administrative data. ### Household Consumption Expenditure Survey - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/hces - **Source URL**: https://microdata.gov.in/NADA/index.php/catalog/237 - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Welfare, Nutrition - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Household spending and consumption microdata used to study living standards, poverty, inequality and inflation weights - **Notes**: HCES records household consumption of food, fuel, clothing, housing, education, health, transport and other goods and services in both quantity and value terms. It is the main official source for monthly per-capita consumption expenditure and supports work on living standards, poverty, inequality, consumption baskets and the weights used in consumer-price indices. The 2022–23 and 2023–24 rounds followed a long gap and introduced design and questionnaire changes, so they are not automatically comparable with older NSS consumer-expenditure rounds. Unit-level files are split into multiple record levels and require careful merging with the documentation, weights and survey design; a simple row average will not reproduce the published estimates. ### Housing and Land Rights Network - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/housing-and-land-rights-network - **Source URL**: https://www.hlrn.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Housing, Cities, Rights, Land - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit organisation monitoring forced evictions, homelessness, and advancing the human right to adequate housing and land tenure across India - **Notes**: Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), based in New Delhi, works for the recognition and realization of the human rights to adequate housing, land, and livelihood for marginalized rural and urban communities in India. HLRN publishes the annual *Forced Evictions in India* national report, maintaining the primary public record of demolition drives, state displacement, and rehabilitation failures. The organisation provides legal aid, conducts human rights impact assessments, and advocates for rights-based urban housing and slum regularisation policies. ### Humanitarian Data Exchange - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/humanitarian-data-exchange - **Source URL**: https://data.humdata.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Disasters, Welfare, Health - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UN OCHA's open repository of crisis and development data, including administrative boundaries for most countries - **Notes**: Often the quickest source of clean administrative boundary files when a national portal is down or undocumented. ### Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/hume-centre-for-ecology-and-wildlife-biology - **Source URL**: https://humecentre.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Climate, Environment - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Kalpetta, Kerala - **Summary**: Community-led science-based solutions for climate resilience and ecological stewardship in Kerala. - **Notes**: The Hume Centre runs field research stations in the Wayanad landscape, integrating community knowledge with scientific research for climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation. It focuses on community-led, science-based approaches to ecological stewardship. ### HydroGNSS - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/hydrognss - **Source URL**: https://www.hydrognss.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Water, Climate, Environment, Land - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Proprietary - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Global satellite observations of soil moisture, freeze-thaw state, inundation, forest biomass, ocean winds and sea ice - **Notes**: HydroGNSS is an ESA Scout mission using reflected GPS and Galileo signals to observe the water cycle and other climate variables through clouds and rain. Its two small satellites produce global measurements of soil moisture, permafrost freeze-thaw state, surface inundation, wetland extent and above-ground forest biomass, with ocean wind speed and sea ice as secondary products. Level 1 and 2 data are supplied as six-hour NetCDF files through a download portal. Access requires institutional registration and acceptance of ESA terms, including limits on sharing data outside the registered organisation. ### IDLI Stack - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/idli-stack - **Source URL**: https://idlistack.com/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Managed hosting for open-source tools built for Indian nonprofits — one-click deployment of ERPNext, chat, fundraising, and more without server headaches - **Notes**: IDLI Stack (Indian Data Liberation Initiative) is a managed hosting platform purpose-built for Indian impact organisations. It lets nonprofits deploy powerful open-source tools — ERPNext for accounting and operations, chat platforms for team communication, fundraising and CRM tools, website builders — with a single click, without needing server administrators or DevOps expertise. The platform handles hosting, uptime, maintenance, updates, and support. Backed by Rainmatter Foundation, Samagata Foundation, FOSS United, and Tata Trusts, and trusted by organisations like Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Project Defy, and Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan. For civic organisations that want the power of FOSS without the infrastructure burden, IDLI is the closest thing to a turnkey solution. ### IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/idmc-global-report-on-internal-displacement - **Source URL**: https://www.internal-displacement.org/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Migration, Disasters, Law & policing, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual global accounting of internal displacement trends, drivers and policy impacts across conflict, climate and development shocks - **Notes**: The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the primary annual reference on internal displacement, which is often missed by India-focused migration and welfare analysis. For civic groups, it helps separate conflict-driven displacement from climate-disaster displacement and links both to protection and service-delivery outcomes. In policy cycles, GRID is used to test whether claims on social protection and housing burdens are consistent with independent displacement data. The publication is especially useful for triangulating with MHA, ReliefWeb, and household income or poverty datasets. ### IIHS - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/iihs - **Source URL**: https://iihs.co.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Housing, Cities - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Indian Institute of Human Settlements — interdisciplinary urban research, teaching, and practice. - **Notes**: IIHS produces the Urban Atlas for India (comparative land-use dataset for 100 cities), Knowledge Gateway (open research repository), Media Lab (audio-visual archive), and Geospatial Lab. Its Urban Fellows Programme, Word Lab, and Kengeri campus as living lab make it a comprehensive urban knowledge institution. ### iLAB Society - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ilab-society - **Source URL**: https://ilabindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Summary**: Uplifting marginalised coastal communities in Kozhikode through education — runs learning hubs and life-skills programmes for fishing community children - **Notes**: iLAB Society focuses on uplifting marginalised coastal communities in Kozhikode through education and leadership development. Its Coastal Education Enhancement Mission (CEEM) addresses high dropout rates and literacy gaps in fishing communities by providing quality primary education and life skills in students' mother tongue. Samagata Foundation supports CEEM to expand its reach. Programmes include MissionTEN, MILES, and Lifeskill Camps. ### ILO Employment and Social Trends - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ilo-employment-and-social-trends - **Source URL**: https://www.ilo.org/publications/flagship-reports/employment-and-social-trends-2026 - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Labour, Economy, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual ILO flagship on labour markets, unemployment, productivity, informality and social dialogue with strong India-relevant indicators - **Notes**: Employment and Social Trends is the ILO’s flagship read on labour outcomes, including formal/informal employment splits, social protection gaps, youth transitions and productivity risks. For researchers in India, this report is useful for framing workforce trends that are not visible through a single ministry dashboard. It pairs well with PLFS and enterprise survey work when looking at employment quality, informality and decent work commitments. Because it covers many economies in one model, it is especially useful for comparative advocacy. ### ILOSTAT - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ilostat - **Source URL**: https://ilostat.ilo.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Labour, Economy, Gender - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The ILO's labour statistics — employment, informality, wages, working time and union density, harmonised across countries - **Notes**: The place to go for Indian informal-sector estimates on a definition that can be compared with anywhere else. ### IMF Blog - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/imf-blog - **Source URL**: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Media, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: IMFBlog publishes timely IMF staff analysis on growth, fiscal pressures, financial stability and policy debates - **Notes**: IMFBlog is the International Monetary Fund’s commentary stream, typically faster than its flagship publications but still grounded in Fund analysis. It is most useful for understanding how IMF staff are framing emerging macro risks, debt tensions and financial fragility in real time. For India-focused civil society work, it helps in contextualizing current policy headlines against IMF’s latest thinking before turning to quarterly outlooks like WEO, Fiscal Monitor and GFSR. ### IMF Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/imf-data - **Source URL**: https://data.imf.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Macroeconomic and financial statistics — balance of payments, government finance, trade and the World Economic Outlook series - **Notes**: The IMF Data portal is the primary access point for the Fund's macroeconomic and financial statistics. For India researchers, the most useful datasets are the World Economic Outlook (macroeconomic projections updated twice yearly), the International Financial Statistics (exchange rates, reserves, money supply, interest rates — monthly data going back to 1948 for India), and the Government Finance Statistics (revenue, expenditure, debt). The Direction of Trade Statistics maps India's bilateral trade flows. What makes IMF Data distinctive is its cross-country comparability — the same methodology applied to 190+ countries, making India's macro indicators directly comparable with peers. All datasets are accessible through the IMF Data API and bulk downloads. Free registration required for some series. ### IMF Fiscal Monitor - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/imf-fiscal-monitor - **Source URL**: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/FM - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Public finance, Economy, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: IMF analysis of fiscal sustainability, debt dynamics and public financial risks across economies, with policy implications - **Notes**: The Fiscal Monitor tracks fiscal policy trajectories, debt servicing pressures, tax design, and fiscal policy trade-offs across advanced and emerging economies. The India-relevant sections are particularly useful for researchers writing on state-level fiscal stress, debt affordability, and medium-term budget design when local budget notes are delayed. It gives comparability across countries and a short-cycle read on macro-fiscal policy, making it a practical complement to India Budget documents and RBI financial aggregates for policy communication. ### IMF Global Financial Stability Report - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/imf-global-financial-stability-report - **Source URL**: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/GFSR - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: IMF macro-financial diagnosis of systemic risk, market stress and cross-border spillovers, updated twice yearly - **Notes**: The Global Financial Stability Report is the IMF's twice-yearly assessment of vulnerabilities across banking, sovereign debt, capital markets and financial plumbing. For India, it is valuable for monitoring how global liquidity cycles, dollar funding stress, and sovereign risk pricing transmit into domestic credit conditions and fiscal stability. It is especially useful when a non-technical advocacy team needs a credible source for policy briefs on financial resilience and macroprudential risk. The publication is text-heavy but provides clear charts and official scenario framing for researchers comparing India with emerging market peers. ### IMF PortWatch - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/imf-portwatch - **Source URL**: https://portwatch.imf.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Transport, Climate, Disasters - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Daily port calls and maritime trade estimates from vessel movements, with disruption monitoring and supply-chain simulations - **Notes**: PortWatch is the IMF's open platform for tracking maritime trade and testing how disruptions could spread through supply chains. It derives daily port calls and preliminary import and export volumes from satellite-captured Automatic Identification System signals, covering more than 2,000 ports and major maritime chokepoints worldwide, including ports in India. Researchers can download the underlying geographic and time-series data or query its ArcGIS APIs; the principal activity datasets are updated weekly. The platform also maps natural-disaster and geopolitical disruptions, simulates port-to-port and country-level spillovers, and compares present and future climate risks. These are experimental estimates rather than official trade statistics: they cover shipping rather than every transport mode, and gaps or spoofing in vessel signals can cause revisions. ### IMF Working Papers - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/imf-working-papers - **Source URL**: https://www.elibrary.imf.org/subject/001 - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Working paper series from IMF staff and economists, covering macro, finance, development, labour and fiscal policy in progress - **Notes**: IMF Working Papers are especially useful for researchers because they often publish methods and estimates before the final chapter or flagship report stage. For civic organisations and advocacy groups, they are a rich source when a policy debate needs recent empirical evidence on debt, capital flows, fiscal stress, labour, climate or financial inclusion. Treat them as analytical inputs rather than final policy positions, and pair with official IMF flagship products (WEO, Fiscal Monitor, GFSR) for final framing. ### IMF World Economic Outlook - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/imf-world-economic-outlook - **Source URL**: https://data.imf.org/Datasets/WEO - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Demography - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Core IMF publication for macroeconomic scenarios, inflation, growth and policy forecasts, now and across comparable member economies - **Notes**: The World Economic Outlook is where the IMF publishes core growth, inflation, current account and fiscal outlooks used in policy and media discussions. For India, it is often the quickest cross-country source for comparable macro assumptions in election-year and policy analysis cycles. Researchers value the regular methodology notes and indicator history; civil society groups use it to ground arguments around debt, growth quality, and global spillovers into domestic inflation or employment outcomes. ### Impact Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/impact-foundation - **Source URL**: https://impactindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Health - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Catalyst for mass health programmes of national priority. - **Notes**: Impact Foundation India runs national-scale immunisation drives and disease elimination programmes. It bridges government health systems with philanthropic and technical resources to achieve population-level health outcomes. ### In Development Magazine - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/in-development-magazine - **Source URL**: https://indevelopmentmag.com/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Governance, Economy, Welfare, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Narrative longform journalism and evidence-based essays exploring state capability, policy reform, and progress in LMICs - **Notes**: In Development Magazine is an independent digital publication publishing narrative longform essays on economic progress, policy experiments, and institutional capability in low- and middle-income countries. Supported by Emergent Ventures and the Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund, the magazine pairs econometric rigor with on-the-ground reporting, exploring how governance, industrial strategy, and civic technology drive tangible human progress. ### Income Tax Time Series Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/income-tax-time-series-data - **Source URL**: https://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: CBDT's annual time series on taxpayer counts by income slab, returns filed, direct tax collections and state-wise distributions from FY 2000-01 onwards - **Notes**: The best public window into India's formal income distribution and tax base. The Time Series Data PDF covers direct tax collections (corporate, personal), taxpayer counts by income bracket, return filing by type, PAN allocations, and state-wise direct tax contributions. Essential for understanding the scale and limits of India's tax base. ### India Climate Collaborative - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-climate-collaborative - **Source URL**: https://indiaclimatecollaborative.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Climate, Philanthropy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Climate philanthropy collaborative unlocking capital, priorities, and connective infrastructure for climate action. - **Notes**: ICC frames itself as connective infrastructure for climate philanthropy, helping funders align priorities, partnerships, and public narratives. Its platform aggregates events, ecosystem signals, and coordinates COP-linked programming that surfaces emerging-economy perspectives. ### India Constituency Maps - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-constituency-maps - **Source URL**: https://github.com/skthewimp/india-constituency-maps - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Elections, Governance, Land - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Pre-delimitation Indian assembly and Lok Sabha constituency shapefiles, standardised to WGS84 — essential GIS layers for electoral and political mapping - **Notes**: This repository, maintained by data scientist S.K. (skthewimp), provides shapefiles for India's pre-delimitation (pre-2008) assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies. Constituency boundary shapefiles are one of the most frequently requested but hardest-to-find GIS layers for India — the Election Commission publishes maps but not always in standard GIS formats. This repo fills that gap by providing cleaned, standardised GeoJSON and shapefiles in WGS84 projection, ready for use in QGIS, R, Python, and web mapping. For researchers working on Indian elections, political geography, or redistricting analysis, this repository is an essential starting point. The data covers the boundaries used in elections up to 2004 (Lok Sabha) and the corresponding state assembly elections. ### India Data Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-data-portal - **Source URL**: https://indiadataportal.com - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Agriculture, Economy, Public finance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Indian public datasets cleaned and standardised for research — agriculture, finance, elections, health and education, from ISB's Bharti Institute - **Notes**: India Data Portal (IDP), run by ISB's Bharti Institute of Public Policy, is one of the most useful Indian resources that remains surprisingly under-known. It aggregates and standardises public datasets from across the Indian government — agriculture (mandi prices, crop production), financial inclusion (banking penetration), elections (candidate affidavits, results), health (NFHS), and education (UDISE) — into a common, analysis-ready format. For researchers who don't want to spend their lives cleaning government spreadsheets, IDP is a godsend. It provides visualisation tools, APIs, and pre-computed summary statistics. The portal also publishes analytical articles demonstrating how to use the data for policy research. ### India Development Review - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-development-review - **Source URL**: https://idronline.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Knowledge platform publishing actionable ideas and lessons for India's social impact sector. - **Notes**: IDR is a public publication platform for essays, explainers, interviews, and insights written for India's social sector. It translates sector experience into accessible public knowledge so practitioners can reuse ideas, lessons, and frameworks. Its Orvador vertical provides digital services for NGOs. ### India District Nighttime Lights (VIIRS) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-district-nightlights-viirs - **Source URL**: https://github.com/yashveeeeeeer/india-district-nightlights-viirs - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Cities, Land, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: District-level nighttime lights panel for India (641 districts, 2012–2024) from VIIRS satellite data, with annual radiance statistics and an automated pipeline - **Notes**: This repository provides an automated Python pipeline and ready-to-use panel dataset tracking satellite-observed nighttime luminosity across all 641 Indian districts (Census 2011 boundaries) from 2012 to 2024. Built using NOAA / NASA Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (DNB) annual median radiance composites via Google Earth Engine, the dataset includes: - **Zonal Statistics**: Mean, median, sum, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum nighttime radiance (in nW/cm²/sr) per district-year, alongside valid pixel counts and log-transformed values (`log1p_mean`, `log1p_median`). - **Data Formats**: An 8,333-row flat CSV panel (`output/csv/nightlights_district_panel.csv`) for immediate econometric analysis in Stata, R, Python, or DuckDB, plus annual GeoJSON layers for spatial mapping in QGIS or Kepler.gl. - **Reproducible Pipeline**: An open-source workflow enabling researchers to authenticate with Earth Engine and customize boundary inputs, year ranges, or composite aggregations. Nighttime luminosity serves as a widely utilized empirical proxy for subnational economic growth, electrification progress, and local urban density where high-frequency district GDP figures are unavailable. ### India Geodata - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-geodata - **Source URL**: https://github.com/yashveeeeeeer/india-geodata - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Governance, Transport, Environment - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC-BY-4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Unified repository of open geospatial data for India, covering administrative boundaries, transport, hydrology, environment, and an in-browser map maker - **Notes**: India Geodata is an open-access repository curated by Yashveer Singh that consolidates and standardizes more than 1,800 geospatial files across India into modern, cloud-optimized formats. The collection harmonizes datasets from official sources (Survey of India, Local Government Directory, ISRO Bhuvan, Forest Survey of India, Ministry of Rural Development, WRIS) and civic data initiatives (DataMeet, SHRUG, OpenStreetMap). Key layers include: - **Administrative & Electoral**: Country, state, district, subdistrict, block, gram panchayat, village, and habitation boundaries, as well as parliamentary and assembly constituencies. - **Environment & Water**: Forest cover, coastal regulation zones, Digital Soil Map of the World polygons, multi-source flood event inventories, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, watersheds, and water body census data. - **Infrastructure & Facilities**: PMGSY rural road networks (GeoSadak), national highways, Indian Railways, inland waterways, and geocoded public health and educational facilities. - **India Map Maker**: A zero-install, client-side web tool (`yashveeeeeeer.github.io/india-geodata/maps/`) allowing users to paste tabular data (from CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets) and render clean choropleth maps exported as PNG, SVG, or PDF. All layers are converted to analysis-friendly formats including GeoParquet, PMTiles, GeoJSONL, and Shapefiles, with large assets distributed via GitHub Releases. ### India Labour Observatory - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-labour-observatory - **Source URL**: https://indialabourobservatory.com/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Labour, Economy, Welfare - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Survey-design-aware labour market evidence from India’s PLFS 2023–24, with uncertainty and provenance visible. - **Notes**: India Labour Observatory presents PLFS-based labour evidence with explicit uncertainty. It combines interactive views with source metadata so users can judge data quality before acting on indicators. ### India Meteorological Department - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/imd - **Source URL**: https://mausam.imd.gov.in - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Climate, Disasters, Water - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official weather observations, forecasts, warnings and long-run rainfall records for India - **Notes**: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is the national weather agency and the authoritative source for Indian weather and climate data. Its public portal provides daily weather observations, district-level rainfall statistics, cyclone warnings, monsoon progress tracking, seasonal forecasts, heatwave alerts, and long-period average (LPA) rainfall data. For researchers, the most important resources are the gridded rainfall and temperature datasets (0.25° resolution, 1901-present), which underpin most Indian climate research. IMD also publishes annual monsoon reports, district-wise rainfall summaries, and severe weather event documentation. Some datasets require registration or purchase; the gridded datasets are available through IMD Pune's data portal. ### India Productivity Lab - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-productivity-lab - **Source URL**: https://www.indiaproductivitylab.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Economy, Labour, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Summary**: Research centre measuring firm-level productivity in India — generates the India KLEMS database and diagnostic tools for understanding economic growth drivers - **Notes**: The India Productivity Lab, part of the Centre for Productivity and Growth at LEAP Insights, focuses on measurement, diagnostics, and analysis of firm-level productivity and economic performance in India. Its most important public output is the India KLEMS database — a productivity accounts framework covering Capital (K), Labour (L), Energy (E), Materials (M), and Services (S) inputs for 27 industries from 1980 onwards. This is the standard dataset for studying India's productivity growth, structural transformation, and the sources of economic growth. The Lab also produces diagnostic tools and frameworks to help firms and policymakers understand productivity bottlenecks. For researchers, India KLEMS is essential for any serious analysis of Indian economic growth at the industry level. The global KLEMS framework ensures cross-country comparability. ### India Public Finance Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-public-finance-portal - **Source URL**: https://github.com/xKDR/india-public-finance-portal - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Public finance, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Research-grade Indian state budget data extracted from expenditure PDFs, with source provenance, validation checks, and multi-language worked examples - **Notes**: India Public Finance Portal is an open research project by XKDR Forum that extracts and standardizes granular state budget data from official expenditure-volume PDFs into machine-readable CSV and NDJSON formats. Rather than aggregating or flattening away inconsistencies, the repository retains source document hierarchy, line-item metadata, and row roles so researchers can audit any number back to the original budget page. - **Current Coverage**: Karnataka state budget expenditure data spanning 9 fiscal years (2018–19 to 2026–27) across 7 annual volumes, and Tamil Nadu budget data covering 13 fiscal years (2014–15 to 2026–27). - **Auditability & Integrity**: Each state package includes data dictionaries, demand-number-to-department lookup tables, machine-readable validation summaries testing internal summation rules, and cross-year accuracy metrics. - **Worked Examples Compendium**: Fully reproducible analyses implemented across Python (standard library only), base R, and DuckDB SQL, packaged with a pinned Docker environment for one-command replication. ### India Resources Trust - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-resources-trust - **Source URL**: https://wri-india.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Delhi - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Practical proposals for environmentally sound development. - **Notes**: India Resources Trust develops evidence-based proposals on environment, resources, and sustainable development, bridging environmental science with practical policy recommendations. ### India Tourism Statistics - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-tourism-statistics - **Source URL**: https://tourism.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Ministry of Tourism's annual statistics — foreign tourist arrivals, foreign exchange earnings, domestic tourism visits, and state-wise tourism infrastructure - **Notes**: India Tourism Statistics provides the official count of foreign tourist arrivals (by country, port of entry, month), foreign exchange earnings from tourism, domestic tourist visits by state, hotel and accommodation inventory, and human resource development in the tourism sector. The India Tourism Data Portal adds interactive dashboards with state and district drill-downs. ### India Under Construction - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-under-construction - **Source URL**: https://indiaunderconstruction.com - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Land, Environment, Transport - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Maps India's infrastructure projects against protected areas and forest fragmentation, so you can see what is being built through what - **Notes**: Found via env.wiki. The overlay is the point: infrastructure data and conservation boundaries are usually published by different bodies that never put them on the same map. ### India Water Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-water-portal - **Source URL**: https://www.indiawaterportal.org - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Water, Environment, Agriculture - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Two decades of reporting, research and district-level rainfall data on Indian water, sanitation and groundwater - **Notes**: India Water Portal is one of the oldest and most comprehensive open knowledge platforms on water in India. Founded by Arghyam, it aggregates data, research, news, and community knowledge on rainfall, groundwater, surface water, water quality, irrigation, drinking water, sanitation, and water policy. It is particularly useful for finding historical context — the portal's archive of articles, case studies, and datasets goes back nearly two decades. For researchers and practitioners, it functions as both a knowledge library and a community of practice. The portal also hosts interactive maps and visualisations of water data that are more accessible than the raw government portals they draw from. ### India-WRIS - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/india-wris - **Source URL**: https://indiawris.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Water, Agriculture, Disasters - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Water resources information system — rainfall, reservoir levels, groundwater, river flows and water quality across India - **Notes**: India-WRIS (Water Resources Information System) is the government's central water data platform, jointly run by the Central Water Commission and ISRO. It provides rainfall, reservoir levels, groundwater depth, river discharge, water quality, and evapotranspiration data across India, much of it at basin and sub-basin scales. The platform includes both a web GIS for map-based exploration and downloadable datasets. For researchers, the major value is having multiple water dimensions — surface water, groundwater, quality, and climate — in one place, with consistent spatial frameworks. The data feeds into water resource assessments, drought monitoring, flood management, and inter-state water dispute analysis. ### Indian Kanoon - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/indian-kanoon - **Source URL**: https://indiankanoon.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Law & policing, Rights, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Partly open - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Search more than three crore Indian laws, judgments and orders, cross-linked to statutes, citations, courts, judges and precedents - **Notes**: Indian Kanoon provides free full-text search across Indian statutes, court judgments and orders from the Supreme Court, High Courts, selected district courts and tribunals. Documents are broken into clauses and connected through citations, cited-by links, statutes, judges and courts, making it especially useful for tracing how a provision has been interpreted. The core database and search are free; alerts, research and AI tools have premium tiers, while API use is metered with allowances for development and verified non-commercial work. ### IndiaSpend - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/indiaspend - **Source URL**: https://www.indiaspend.com - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Governance, Media, Health - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Data-driven reporting on Indian public policy, from health spending to air quality, with the sources laid out - **Notes**: IndiaSpend was India's first data journalism initiative, founded in 2011 by journalist Govindraj Ethiraj. It pioneered the model of using public datasets — government surveys, budget documents, RTI responses, academic research — to produce explanatory journalism on health, education, environment, agriculture, and governance. For researchers and journalists, IndiaSpend is valuable not just as a news source but as a demonstration of which Indian datasets can be fruitfully mined for stories. Their archives, going back over a decade, contain thousands of data-driven explainers and investigations. IndiaSpend also runs fact-checking (FactChecker.in) and training programmes for data journalism. ### Indic Digital Archive Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/indic-digital-archive-foundation - **Source URL**: https://indicarchive.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Media, Technology - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Summary**: Digital archival and preservation of Indic language cultural artefacts — books, publications, and documents — available for free and open access - **Notes**: IDAF works on digital archival and preservation of Indic language cultural artefacts. Its flagship projects include Granthappura — a large and growing collection of books and documents related to Kerala and Malayalam — and Olam, an open-source Malayalam dictionary used by ~2.5 million people monthly. Samagata Foundation backs IDAF's operations including the procurement of book scanners and archival technology. ### IndusTree - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/industree - **Source URL**: https://www.industree.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Sustainable livelihoods in creative manufacturing and regenerative value chains. - **Notes**: Industree has translated women-led creative manufacturing into producer companies (GreenKraft, Ektha), market brands, and value-chain systems across bamboo, sal leaves, and banana fibre. Its 6C framework (Capacity, Capital, Create, Construct, Channels, Connect) is a named model for building producer enterprise ecosystems. ### Institute for Transportation and Development Policy India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/itdp-india - **Source URL**: https://itdp.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Transport, Cities, Environment, Climate - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit advancing complete streets, bus rapid transit, cycle networks, and sustainable public transit across Indian municipal corporations - **Notes**: The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) India is a non-profit organization providing technical expertise and policy advocacy to promote equitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient urban transportation systems. ITDP India works directly with central ministries and municipal city corporations to design Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors, pedestrian-first "complete streets," dedicated non-motorized cycle track networks, and parking management policies. It also supports national initiatives like the India Cycles4Change and Streets for People Challenges. ### Institute of Palliative Medicine, Calicut - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/institute-of-palliative-medicine-calicut - **Source URL**: https://www.instituteofpalliativemedicine.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Health, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Summary**: WHO-accredited palliative care centre that pioneered the Kerala palliative model — community-driven, volunteer-powered, and centred on humanism and empathy - **Notes**: Started in 1993, IPM pioneered the unique Kerala palliative care model. A WHO-accredited institute, it operates from a campus in Calicut that functions as a thriving community and cultural meetup space. Its decentralised, volunteer-powered model attracts college students who participate in home-based palliative care, art events, and fundraising. Samagata Foundation backed a major campus upgradation project enhancing the community/meetup spaces. ### International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/icij - **Source URL**: https://www.icij.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Transparency, Law & policing, Media, Economy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Independent international network of investigative reporters famous for collaborative cross-border data investigations into offshore financial leaks - **Notes**: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a Washington-based non-profit newsroom and global network of investigative reporters founded in 1997. ICIJ is famous for pioneering massive, multi-newsroom data collaborative investigations into offshore financial secrecy and tax havens, including the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, FinCEN Files, and Pandora Papers. ICIJ maintains the public Offshore Leaks Database, allowing citizens and researchers to search ownership networks of over 800,000 offshore companies and trusts. ### Internet Archive - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/internet-archive - **Source URL**: https://archive.org - **Kind**: Archive - **Topics**: Media, Technology, Rights - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: San Francisco, California - **Summary**: The web's memory — archived pages, books, government records and broadcasts, plus the Wayback Machine - **Notes**: Worth knowing well: when a ministry quietly edits or removes a page, the Wayback Machine is usually the only record that it said something else. ### Internet Freedom Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/internet-freedom-foundation - **Source URL**: https://internetfreedom.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Rights, Technology, Media, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Summary**: India's foremost digital rights organisation — defending free speech, privacy, net neutrality, and surveillance reform through litigation and public advocacy - **Notes**: IFF (Internet Freedom Foundation) is India's leading digital rights organisation, defending the open internet through strategic litigation, parliamentary engagement, and public advocacy. It has been at the centre of almost every major Indian digital rights battle: the net neutrality campaign (Save the Internet), challenges to the IT Rules and internet shutdowns, surveillance reform (Pegasus), data protection law advocacy, and defending encryption. IFF runs the IFF Legal programme providing pro-bono legal support in digital rights cases, and publishes detailed explainers, policy analyses, and transparency reports. For researchers, journalists, and civic technologists, IFF's website is the most comprehensive archive of Indian digital rights law, policy, and litigation — and a model for rights-based tech advocacy globally. ### IPCC Data Distribution Centre - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ipcc-data-distribution-centre - **Source URL**: https://www.ipcc-data.org/ - **Kind**: Archive - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Economy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The official archive for all IPCC assessment datasets — observed climate, future projections, socioeconomic scenarios, and impacts data with consistent metadata - **Notes**: The DDC is the reference point for every dataset cited in IPCC Assessment Reports. It archives observed climate records, CMIP5/CMIP6 global climate model output, downscaled regional projections, and the SSP (Shared Socioeconomic Pathway) scenario database. For India-specific analysis, the DDC's regional data pages provide pre-extracted South Asia time series and maps from each generation of climate models. ### IPUMS International - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ipums-international - **Source URL**: https://international.ipums.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Demography, Labour, Education - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Harmonised census microdata from 100+ countries — individual records spanning decades, making long-run comparative demographic research possible - **Notes**: IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) at the University of Minnesota harmonises census microdata across countries and time periods — so a variable like 'educational attainment' means the same thing in India 2001, India 2011, Brazil 2010, and Kenya 2009. For India, IPUMS International hosts harmonised samples from the 1983, 1987, 1993, 1999, 2004, and 2011 censuses (the 2011 sample covers ~23 million person records). Researchers can build cross-country or inter-temporal comparisons — for example, comparing female labour force participation in India vs. Bangladesh over three decades — using a single, consistently coded dataset. Free registration required. ### J-PAL South Asia - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/j-pal-south-asia - **Source URL**: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/south-asia - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Welfare, Health, Education, Economy - **Geography**: India, Asia - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Regional research centre conducting randomized evaluations to discover which anti-poverty, health, education, and governance programs work - **Notes**: J-PAL South Asia, hosted at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) in New Delhi, is the regional office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (founded at MIT by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan). The centre partners with state governments, central ministries, and non-profits across India to design and implement randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing public policy interventions. Its research covers direct benefit transfers, air pollution emissions markets, primary school learning methods, and community health worker incentives. ### Jagriti Seva Sansthan - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/jagriti-seva-sansthan - **Source URL**: https://www.jagritiyatra.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Economy - **Geography**: India, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Araipar, Uttar Pradesh - **Summary**: Building India through enterprise in Middle India, running the iconic Jagriti Yatra train journey. - **Notes**: Jagriti runs the annual 8,000 km Jagriti Yatra rail journey connecting young entrepreneurs with grassroots enterprises across India. Its Jagriti Enterprise Centre in eastern UP provides physical incubation and enterprise support infrastructure, using entrepreneurship as the vehicle for equitable development in underserved regions. ### Jagriti Yatra - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/jagriti-yatra - **Source URL**: https://www.jagritiyatra.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Labour, Education, Economy, Welfare - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Registration required - **Founded**: 2008 - **Summary**: Nonprofit train journey and alumni network introducing young people to social enterprise across small-town and rural India - **Notes**: Jagriti Yatra is a nonprofit programme built around a long-distance train journey through small-town and rural India. Participants meet social and business entrepreneurs, develop enterprise ideas and join an alumni network focused on employment and enterprise-led development beyond the largest metropolitan centres. The journey is selective rather than an open public service: prospective participants apply, and programme dates, fees and routes can change each year. Its environmental connection is only one part of a broader portfolio spanning agriculture, health, technology, livelihoods and inclusive entrepreneurship, which is why Soochi classifies it primarily under work, education and welfare. ### Jal Jeevan Mission Dashboard - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/jal-jeevan-mission-dashboard - **Source URL**: https://ejalshakti.gov.in/JJMReport/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Water, Health, Welfare, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Rural tap-water coverage, village certification, water quality, scheme progress and mission finances down to habitation level - **Notes**: The Jal Jeevan Mission reporting system tracks functional household tap connections in rural homes, schools and anganwadis. It offers state-to-habitation reports on connections, piped-water villages, water quality, schemes, village action plans, expenditure and the progression from reported to Gram Sabha-certified Har Ghar Jal status. The dashboard is administrative monitoring data updated by states and union territories, not an independent household survey. A recorded connection does not by itself establish regular flow, quantity or water quality, and "reported" is distinct from "certified." Use the detailed dated reports and retain the portal's reconciliation notices when constructing local time series. ### Jan Shaurya - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/jan-shaurya - **Source URL**: https://janshaurya.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Gender, Rights, Education, Caste - **Geography**: India, Madhya Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Protects girls from caste-based sexual exploitation through education, legal awareness, mentorship and community leadership - **Notes**: Jan Shaurya works with girls from Banchhada and Bedia communities in western Madhya Pradesh to interrupt intergenerational caste-based sexual exploitation. Its programmes combine identification and protection with Garima learning centres, school support, exposure visits, life-skills education, legal awareness, mentoring and Balika Panchayats intended to give girls a public voice and greater control over their futures. This is sensitive administrative and programme information, not a population estimate of trafficking or exploitation. Counts on protection, villages and participants are reported by the organisation and should be attributed as such; its annual reports are the better source for dated claims. Descriptions should also avoid identifying individual children or treating caste identity as destiny. ### Jan Swasthya Abhiyan - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/jan-swasthya-abhiyan - **Source URL**: https://phmindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Health, Rights, Governance, Welfare - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Indian network of the People's Health Movement coordinating public health practitioners, activists, and unions for health equity and healthcare rights - **Notes**: Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) is the Indian chapter of the global People's Health Movement (PHM). Formed in 2000 through a coalition of over 20 national networks and hundreds of public health organisations, JSA advocates for the universal right to healthcare, comprehensive primary health services, and the regulation of private healthcare providers. JSA conducts state-level community health audits, produces policy responses to national health missions and drug pricing regulations, and organizes public hearings on patients' rights violations. Its network includes doctors, social scientists, community health networks, and women's groups across multiple Indian states. ### Jan Swasthya Sahyog - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/jan-swasthya-sahyog - **Source URL**: https://jssbilaspur.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Health, Nutrition, Welfare, Rights - **Geography**: Chhattisgarh, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Community health non-profit providing low-cost rural clinical care, village health worker networks, and public health research in central tribal India - **Notes**: Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS) is a voluntary organisation founded in 1999 by a team of health professionals to provide affordable, high-quality healthcare in rural and tribal Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. JSS runs a rural referral hospital at Ganiyari, three outreach sub-centres, and a community health programme covering over 70 forest-fringe villages. Beyond direct clinical care, JSS trains female village health workers, manufactures essential low-cost generic pharmaceuticals, operates a low-cost medical diagnostics workshop, and conducts epidemiological research on undernutrition, tuberculosis, and rural health disparities in tribal India. ### Jana Urban Space - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/jana-urban-space - **Source URL**: https://janausp.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Fixing spatial dimensions of Indian cities via policy, planning, and design. - **Notes**: Jana Urban Space applies spatial analytics and planning science to fix dysfunctional urban layouts. Its projects span city-level spatial planning, zoning reform, and public realm design across multiple states. ### Janaagraha - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/janaagraha - **Source URL**: https://www.janaagraha.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Public finance - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Assam - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: City-systems reform organisation focused on municipal finance, civic participation, and urban governance — transforming India's cities for nearly 25 years - **Notes**: Janaagraha is one of India's most influential urban governance organisations, working for nearly 25 years to transform the quality of life in Indian cities and towns. Its core strengths lie in municipal finance reform, government capacity building, and unlocking funds for effective delivery of municipal services. Key public artefacts include **CityFinance.in** — a national municipal finance portal conceived by Janaagraha for city financial statements, benchmarking, and peer learning — and the **15th Finance Commission online grant management system** that digitised city-grant eligibility, compliance, and disbursal. Janaagraha also developed the **Odisha Municipal Accounting Manual 2.0** for improved reporting and accountability, and a **Property Tax Reform Toolkit** mapping best practices across the full property-tax lifecycle. Its programmes span own-revenue augmentation (whole-of-systems transformation of property tax and user charges), civic participation (making it easier for citizens to engage in neighbourhood and city governance), and climate-responsive city planning — including creating climate-friendly city action plans in 10 cities of Assam with Rainmatter Foundation's support. Janaagraha's "whole-of-systems" lens treats municipal reform not as piecemeal fixes but as end-to-end redesign of city finance and governance systems. ### Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/jawaharlal-nehru-planetarium-bangalore - **Source URL**: https://taralaya.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Technology - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Summary**: Premier science centre in Bengaluru visited by lakhs yearly, running astronomy education, telescope lending, and an undergraduate research programme - **Notes**: Opened in 1989, JNP is a premier science centre in Bengaluru. Samagata Foundation supports three key initiatives: Taralaya (fully funded day trips for rural government school children), REAP (a rigorous three-year weekend science programme where 135+ alumni have earned PhDs), and the Telescope Borrowing Program for amateur astronomers. Samagata set up an endowment providing REAP scholarships for 20 years. ### Judicial Data Collaborative - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/judicial-data-collaborative - **Source URL**: https://judicialdatacollaborative.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Law & policing, Governance, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Summary**: Promoting transparency and accountability in governance through open judicial data — building a reliable open-source knowledge hub for the justice system - **Notes**: Anchored by Daksh Society, the Judicial Data Collaborative drives advocacy around the accessibility, quality, and reliability of judicial data through collective action. Samagata Foundation backs its Judicial Data Wiki / Justice Definitions Project, which creates a reliable open-source knowledge hub for terms and concepts related to the justice system. A key resource for legal researchers, journalists, and civic technologists working on judicial reform. ### Jupyter - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/jupyter - **Source URL**: https://jupyter.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Education - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (BSD) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Free, open-source interactive computing platform — create documents with live code, equations, visualisations, and narrative text, the standard for data science - **Notes**: Jupyter (Julia, Python, R) is the de facto standard for interactive data science. A Jupyter Notebook is a document that combines live code, output (tables, charts, maps), and explanatory text — making analysis transparent, reproducible, and shareable. For Indian researchers getting started with public datasets (Census, NFHS, PLFS, MGNREGA), Jupyter provides a gentle on-ramp: you can load a CSV, explore it step by step, document your process, and share the resulting notebook as a complete record of your analysis. The Jupyter ecosystem includes JupyterLab (next-gen interface), JupyterHub (multi-user server), JupyterBook (publishing notebooks as websites), and Binder (running notebooks in the cloud without installing anything). Free, open-source, and maintained by Project Jupyter, a nonprofit. ### Kalpavriksh - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/kalpavriksh - **Source URL**: https://kalpavriksh.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Rights, Education, Land - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 1979 - **Summary**: Environmental action group working on conservation, livelihoods, ecological justice, education and alternative development - **Notes**: Kalpavriksh is an Indian environmental action group whose work connects biodiversity conservation with livelihoods, democratic governance and social equity. Its programmes span community-conserved areas, environment and development, urban ecology, environmental education and documentation of alternatives to ecologically destructive models of development. The organisation also publishes books, newsletters, research and teaching material and convenes Vikalp Sangam. Soochi lists its Community Conserved Areas Portal separately because that is a data resource in its own right; this entry is for the wider organisation and body of civic and advocacy work. ### Karnataka ASDDO Dashboard - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/karnataka-asddo-dashboard - **Source URL**: https://gouthamganeshm.github.io/karnataka-asddo-dashboard/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Elections, Governance, Transparency, Rights - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Privacy-preserving static dashboard and EPIC lookup for 1.08 crore voter deletions across Karnataka under SIR 2026 - **Notes**: The Karnataka ASDDO Dashboard is an open-source civic telemetry tool that lets voters check whether their EPIC card appears on the Chief Electoral Officer's ASDDO (Absent, Shifted, Death, Duplicate, Others) deletion list from the Special Intensive Revision (SIR 2026). Covering 1.08 crore records across 59,027 booth PDFs and 224 constituencies, the site operates entirely client-side without servers or databases. Queries are hashed via SHA-256 in the browser to ensure voter EPIC numbers never leave the user's device, while parsing raw PDF byte streams directly to guarantee high fidelity across all 34 districts. ### Kepler.gl - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/keplergl - **Source URL**: https://kepler.gl/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Cities, Technology, Land - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Powerful open-source geospatial visualisation tool — drag-and-drop millions of points and create beautiful interactive maps in the browser, no code required - **Notes**: Kepler.gl, created by Uber and now open-source, is a browser-based tool for visualising large geospatial datasets. Drop a CSV or GeoJSON file with location data, and immediately create heatmaps, cluster maps, time-animated flows, 3D hexbin layers, and network maps. For Indian researchers, Kepler.gl is the fastest way to visualise patterns in spatial data — plot all MGNREGA worksites, animate the spread of a disease outbreak, map urban growth from satellite data, or show migration flows between districts. It handles millions of points smoothly using WebGL rendering. The tool runs entirely in the browser (no server needed), and maps can be exported as images or interactive HTML. Particularly useful for exploratory analysis before committing to a full GIS workflow. ### Keystone Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/keystone-foundation - **Source URL**: https://keystonefoundation.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment - **Geography**: India, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu - **Summary**: Socio-ecological resilience for indigenous and local communities in the Nilgiri Biosphere. - **Notes**: Keystone Foundation has built a cluster of sister enterprises: Aadhimalai (indigenous producer company), Last Forest (social enterprise for wild honey), Nilgiri Field Learning Centre, Radio Kotagiri, and the Honey Portal. Its model incubates producer companies and enterprises rather than limiting itself to short-cycle projects. ### KoboToolbox - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/kobotoolbox - **Source URL**: https://www.kobotoolbox.org - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Health, Welfare - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Cambridge, Massachusetts - **Summary**: Open-source field data collection that works offline on cheap phones, widely used for humanitarian and survey work - **Notes**: KoboToolbox is the most widely used open-source data collection platform in the humanitarian and development sectors. Developed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, it lets organisations build complex survey forms, collect data offline on mobile devices, and manage submissions through a clean web interface. For Indian civil society, Kobo has become the de facto standard for household surveys, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, and field research — largely because it is free, works without internet connectivity, and handles multiple languages (including most Indian languages). The platform is used by thousands of Indian NGOs, research organisations, and government agencies. Data can be exported in multiple formats and connected to analysis tools. ### Koshtha - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/koshtha - **Source URL**: https://www.koshtha.in/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Public finance, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Explore Union Budget allocations at demand, ministry, scheme and object-head level, alongside selected state budget ledgers - **Notes**: Koshtha brings Union Budget data, Detailed Demands for Grants, scheme information and selected state budget ledgers into one interface. It is useful for tracing published allocations from ministries and schemes down to object heads, and for comparing them across budget years without working through separate annual documents. ### Kota Heritage Society - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/kota-heritage-society - **Source URL**: http://www.kotaheritagesociety.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India, Rajasthan - **Summary**: Preserving tangible and intangible heritage in Rajasthan — documenting and reviving 400 traditional hand block prints through the Marwar Block Print Project - **Notes**: Kota Heritage Society works for heritage preservation in Rajasthan and surrounding areas. Samagata Foundation backs its Marwar Block Print Project, which aims to document, revive, and publish approximately 400 culture-specific hand block prints from Western Rajasthan. The project recreates old designs using unique natural dye recipes, indigenous printing techniques, and artisan exchanges, with knowledge shared with academic institutions, museums, and printer communities. ### Kritia Development Research - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/kritia-development-research - **Source URL**: https://krititeam.blogspot.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Delhi - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Knowledge and networking resources for social change. - **Notes**: Kritia facilitates connections and knowledge sharing across social change organisations through development research and networking resources. ### Labour Bureau Wage Rate Index - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/labour-bureau-wage-rate-index - **Source URL**: https://labourbureau.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Labour, Agriculture, Economy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Rural and urban wage rates for 46 agricultural and non-agricultural occupations, collected monthly from 600 villages and published as wage rate indices - **Notes**: The Labour Bureau collects retail wage rates across 46 occupations (12 agricultural, 7 plantation, 19 non-agricultural rural, and 8 urban) from 600 sample villages and urban centres. This is the most granular, high-frequency wage data available for rural India — essential for tracking agricultural distress, MGNREGA wage comparisons, and real purchasing power at the bottom of the income distribution. ### Land Conflict Watch - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/land-conflict-watch - **Source URL**: https://www.landconflictwatch.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Law & policing, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: A researcher-built database of ongoing land conflicts across India, mapped and documented district by district - **Notes**: Each conflict record cites its sources. ### Landsat Data Access (USGS) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/landsat-data-access-usgs - **Source URL**: https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/landsat-data-access - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Environment, Agriculture, Water - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Decades of free satellite imagery from the Landsat programme — the longest continuous Earth observation record, essential for studying change over time - **Notes**: Landsat provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth's land surface — from 1972 to present at 30 m resolution (15 m panchromatic). For India, this is the go-to source for studying urban expansion, deforestation, water body change, agricultural land conversion, coastal erosion, and glacial retreat over five decades. Accessible through USGS EarthExplorer, the M2M API, and Google Earth Engine. Landsat 8 and 9 (currently operational) provide 8-day revisit. Landsat Next will bring 10 m resolution and 6-day revisit starting around 2031. ### Landscape Explorer - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/landscape-explorer - **Source URL**: https://www.explorer.core-stack.org/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Land, Water - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Interactive dashboard for social-ecological indicators across Indian landscapes to support climate resilience planning. - **Notes**: Landscape Explorer is the CoRE Stack application for browsing landscape-level indicators on land, water, and climate risk. It is designed for policy and planning discussions that need context-aware spatial views. ### LibTech India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/libtech-india - **Source URL**: https://libtech.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Welfare, Labour, Transparency, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Action-research collective tracking public welfare delivery, MGNREGA wage delays, and digital exclusions in rural social security systems - **Notes**: LibTech India is an action-research collective of engineers, social scientists, and activists working with grassroots organisations and rural workers. The group uses data science, field audits, and automated monitoring systems to understand how technology impacts social welfare programs, with a focus on MGNREGA and the Public Distribution System (PDS). LibTech analyzes administrative transaction data to identify wage payment delays, rejection rates, Aadhaar-Based Payment System (ABPS) errors, and biometric exclusion in rural welfare schemes. Their empirical reports and open calculators provide vital evidence for labour unions, rights advocates, and policymakers seeking to make digital welfare accountable. ### Lipok Social Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/lipok-social-foundation - **Source URL**: https://lipok.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bidkin, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Improving farmer livelihoods in Marathwada and Vidarbha. - **Notes**: Lipok Social Foundation provides targeted training and support for smallholder farmers in Maharashtra's most climate-stressed regions — Marathwada and Vidarbha — focusing on livelihood resilience in drought-prone areas. ### LiteParse - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/liteparse - **Source URL**: https://github.com/run-llama/liteparse - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Fast, helpful, open-source document parser from LlamaIndex — extracts structured text from PDFs, Word, and other formats with high accuracy for LLM pipelines - **Notes**: LiteParse is an open-source document parser built by the LlamaIndex team (run-llama), designed for the LLM era. Unlike traditional PDF parsers that struggle with tables, multi-column layouts, and complex formatting, LiteParse uses vision-language models to understand document structure and extract text with high fidelity. For civic technologists and researchers working with Indian government data — which is overwhelmingly published as scanned PDFs, multi-column tables, and poorly formatted spreadsheets — LiteParse represents a significant capability: the ability to reliably convert government documents into structured, machine-readable text at scale. The tool is MIT-licensed, installable via pip, and integrates naturally with LlamaIndex's broader framework for building LLM applications over documents. ### Local Government Directory - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/local-government-directory - **Source URL**: https://lgdirectory.gov.in/demo/downloadDirectory.do - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Governance, Cities, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Canonical government codes and mappings for states, districts, villages, panchayats, urban bodies, wards and constituencies - **Notes**: The Local Government Directory is the Government of India's reference register for administrative and local-government units. It assigns codes to states, districts, subdistricts, villages, panchayats, urban local bodies and wards, and publishes mappings among them and to constituencies. These identifiers are often the best available keys for joining datasets from different departments. Downloads can be generated for one state or for all entities, while services also expose structured formats. The interface may require a captcha, and boundaries and codes change as governments create or reorganise units. Preserve the download date and use the modification reports when maintaining longitudinal crosswalks. ### M.S.Swaminathan Research - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/m-s-swaminathan-research - **Source URL**: https://www.mssrf.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Chennai, Tamil Nadu - **Summary**: Science-driven research for sustainable rural development. - **Notes**: MSSRF's infrastructure includes Village Resource Centres and Village Knowledge Centres, Fish for All Research and Training Centre, the Community Agrobiodiversity Centre and MSSBG in Wayanad, and the Biju Patnaik Tribal Agrobiodiversity Centre in Jeypore. Its approach positions science as a grassroots capability for resilient ecosystems, food security, and climate adaptation. ### Malabar Wildlife Rescue - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/malabar-wildlife-rescue - **Source URL**: https://www.facebook.com/marcforwildlife/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Education - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Kannur, Kerala - **Summary**: Wildlife education, rescue, and rehabilitation. - **Notes**: Malabar Wildlife Rescue provides active rescue, treatment, and rehabilitation of injured and orphaned wildlife in Kerala. Its public education programmes build awareness and coexistence with local wildlife. ### Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/midf - **Source URL**: https://midf.org.in - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Technology, Education - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Proprietary - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Builds a searchable, machine-readable repository of India's digitised manuscripts and inscriptions for research and public access - **Notes**: MIDF combines a public repository with digitisation grants and technical standards. Custodians retain ownership of their material; its Smriti platform currently exposes manuscript and inscription records without a paywall. ### Mapeo - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/mapeo - **Source URL**: https://awana.digital/mapeo - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Land, Rights, Environment - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Free offline-first mapping toolset designed with Indigenous communities for locally controlled territorial documentation - **Notes**: Mapeo is a free, offline-first toolset for communities to document, monitor and map places, evidence and stories. It is designed for collaborative work where connectivity is limited: projects can define their own data structures, retain local control and synchronise directly among devices rather than depending on a continuously available central server. The software was co-designed with Indigenous partners for territorial defence and conservation and is maintained by the nonprofit now called Awana Digital, formerly Digital Democracy. Its inclusion in Env Wiki establishes environmental relevance, but it is global rather than India-specific. Projects handling sensitive community or location data should still establish consent, security and governance practices before deployment. ### MapLibre GL - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/maplibre-gl - **Source URL**: https://maplibre.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (BSD-3-Clause) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Community-led open-source mapping engine for rendering interactive vector tile maps on web and mobile devices - **Notes**: MapLibre GL is a community-governed open-source mapping suite created as a fork of Mapbox GL after its relicensing. It includes MapLibre GL JS (for web browsers) and MapLibre Native (for iOS and Android), providing GPU-accelerated rendering of vector map tiles, satellite raster layers, and interactive geospatial geometries. Maintained under the MapLibre organisation within the OpenJS Foundation, MapLibre is the standard open mapping toolkit for civic tech portals, open data dashboards, and environmental map viewers that require high-performance interactive cartography without proprietary map licensing restrictions. ### Mathesar - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/mathesar - **Source URL**: https://mathesar.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL-3.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source spreadsheet-like interface for non-technical teams to edit, explore, query and collaborate on PostgreSQL data - **Notes**: Mathesar puts a familiar spreadsheet-style interface over PostgreSQL. People without SQL can create and edit records, relate tables, filter and group data, build visual queries and collaborate, while administrators retain PostgreSQL's native schemas, roles and permissions. It can connect to an existing database or start a new one, is self-hosted and does not trap the data behind a proprietary format. Mathesar Foundation, a nonprofit, maintains the GPL-licensed project. The software is in public beta, so teams should test backup, permissions and upgrade procedures before placing important programme data in production. ### Maxun - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/maxun - **Source URL**: https://www.maxun.dev/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Transparency, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source no-code web extraction platform for turning websites into structured datasets, scheduled workflows and APIs - **Notes**: Maxun lets a researcher record browser actions or describe an extraction task, then rerun it to collect structured information from websites. It supports pagination, scheduled runs, authenticated pages, crawling, screenshots and exports to spreadsheets or APIs, without requiring the user to write a custom scraper. The AGPL-licensed application can be self-hosted, while a hosted version is also available. Web extraction must still respect applicable law, privacy, copyright, site terms and robots guidance. Automated workflows also need monitoring because changes to a source website can silently alter or break the result. ### Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/mazdoor-kisan-shakti-sangathan - **Source URL**: https://mkssindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Rights, Labour, Transparency, Welfare - **Geography**: Rajasthan, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Grassroots peasant-worker union that pioneered Jan Sunwais and led the historic movement for India's Right to Information and MGNREGA - **Notes**: The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) is a grassroots peasant and workers' organisation founded in 1990 in rural central Rajasthan. MKSS pioneered the concept of Jan Sunwais (public hearings), where official muster rolls and development expenditures are read aloud to village residents to audit corruption and wage theft. MKSS's decade-long mobilization formed the foundation of the National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI), directly leading to the enactment of Rajasthan's state RTI law (2000) and India's national Right to Information Act (2005). MKSS also played a pivotal role in the design, passage, and social audit mechanisms of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). ### MCA Company Statistics - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/mca-company-statistics - **Source URL**: https://www.mca.gov.in/content/mca/global/en/data-and-reports/company-statistics.html - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official monthly and annual statistics on company registrations, active companies, closures, capital and sector distribution - **Notes**: The Ministry of Corporate Affairs publishes recurring summaries derived from the MCA21 registry. They describe new registrations, active and closed companies, authorised and paid-up capital, age, economic activity and geographic distribution, providing a useful administrative view of India's incorporated business sector. Registration is not the same as an operating establishment, employment or output, and filing status can lag real business activity. This public statistics area should also be distinguished from paid company-document inspection and restricted record-level MCA data. The MCA site sometimes blocks automated clients, so downloads may work in a browser even when programmatic access fails. ### Mental Health Action Trust (MHAT) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/mental-health-action-trust-mhat - **Source URL**: https://mhatkerala.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Health, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Kerala, Karnataka - **Summary**: Decentralised, low-cost community mental health support using volunteer-powered, task-sharing models — free care through clinics in Kerala and Bengaluru - **Notes**: Established in 2008, MHAT provides mental health support to communities through a decentralised, low-cost model relying on volunteer support and task-sharing among professionals and trained non-professionals. It performs economic screening and provides services free of charge, with patient tracking, outreach, and regular training. Samagata Foundation supports MHAT's Community Mental Health Clinics in Bengaluru. ### Metabase - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/metabase - **Source URL**: https://www.metabase.com/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0-only) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source business intelligence tool that lets team members ask questions and build dashboards from SQL databases without code - **Notes**: Metabase is an open-source business intelligence and dashboarding tool designed to make data querying accessible to non-technical users. It connects to relational databases and data lakes, offering an intuitive visual query builder that lets users filter, group, aggregate, and chart data without writing SQL. Widely deployed across non-profits, civic tech projects, and social enterprises, Metabase enables field officers, researchers, and project managers to track real-time program indicators, generate scheduled email/Slack reports, and publish public embeds of data trends. ### MGNREGA Public Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nrega-public-data - **Source URL**: https://nrega.dord.gov.in - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Welfare, Labour, Agriculture - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Job cards, works, muster rolls and payments for India's rural employment guarantee, published down to panchayat level - **Notes**: MGNREGA's public data portal is one of the most remarkable government transparency initiatives in the world. It publishes real-time, transaction-level data on India's rural employment guarantee programme: job cards issued, works undertaken, muster rolls (who worked, for how many days), and payments made — all down to the Gram Panchayat level. For researchers, this has supported an enormous body of independent work on rural labour markets, programme implementation, corruption, gender equity, and climate adaptation. The data is updated daily and accessible through both the web dashboard and programme APIs. MGNREGA's public data infrastructure is often held up as a model for how other government schemes should report. ### MLI Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/mli-foundation - **Source URL**: https://mlifoundation.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Uttar Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Noida, Uttar Pradesh - **Summary**: Animal welfare and environmental awareness. - **Notes**: MLI Foundation runs campaigns and programmes promoting animal welfare and environmental consciousness, linking animal welfare with broader environmental awareness and action. ### Mongabay India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/mongabay-india - **Source URL**: https://india.mongabay.com/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Media, Rights - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Partly open (CC BY-ND 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Independent nonprofit reporting on India's forests, wildlife, oceans, climate, conservation and environmental governance - **Notes**: Mongabay India is the India edition of the independent nonprofit environmental news organisation. Its journalists report on forests, wildlife, oceans, pollution, climate, energy, infrastructure and conservation, often connecting scientific evidence and policy decisions with the experiences of affected communities. The publication is available in English and Hindi without a paywall. Its stated Creative Commons Attribution–NoDerivatives licence permits republication with attribution but not altered versions, so it should not be treated as unrestricted open text. Soochi lists the publication rather than each individual report. ### MoSPI MCP Server - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/mospi-mcp - **Source URL**: https://github.com/nso-india/esankhyiki-mcp - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Labour, Health, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: 27 official Indian statistical datasets, queryable in plain language from an AI assistant rather than through a download page - **Notes**: Built by MoSPI's Data Innovation Lab with Bharat Digital, and released under the MIT licence — a government statistics office publishing its own access layer as open source, which is rarer than it should be. The 27 datasets are most of the official series: PLFS for employment, CPI and WPI for prices, IIP and ASI for industry, national accounts, the economic census, household consumption, time use, AISHE and UDISE for education, NFHS for health, and NSS rounds on agriculture, disability and informal enterprises. What it changes is who can ask. The underlying eSankhyiki APIs already existed; the barrier was knowing the dataset codes and query grammar before you could ask a question. This removes that step, which matters most for the people least likely to be writing the query themselves. ### MoSPI Microdata Archive - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/mospi-microdata - **Source URL**: https://microdata.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Labour, Demography - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Unit-level records from India's national sample surveys — the raw respondent data behind the published aggregates - **Notes**: Aggregates answer the question someone else asked; microdata lets you ask your own. Registration is required. ### Movebank - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/movebank - **Source URL**: https://www.movebank.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Environment, Land - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Partly open - **Summary**: Repository of animal tracking data where researchers archive, share and analyse studies, hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior - **Notes**: Movebank is a global online database of animal tracking data, hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. It archives movement data from studies of birds, mammals, fish, and other animals — collected through GPS tags, satellite telemetry, radio tracking, and other methods. For Indian researchers, Movebank hosts tracking data for species ranging from Amur falcons and bar-headed geese to elephants and snow leopards, much of it contributed by Indian research institutions. The data is accessible through a web interface and API, with options for public, embargoed, and restricted access levels. ### Munnarakkunnu Trust - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/munnarakkunnu-trust - **Source URL**: https://gbsanctuary.org/munnarakkunnu/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment, Education - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Plant conservation, rainforest regeneration, and nature education. - **Notes**: Munnarakkunnu Trust works on rainforest regeneration and native plant conservation in Karnataka, combining hands-on conservation with ecological learning programmes. ### MyNeta.info - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/my-neta - **Source URL**: https://myneta.info - **Kind**: Directory - **Topics**: Elections, Governance, Law & policing - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: ADRs MyNeta compiles candidate disclosures, criminal cases, assets and education records from India's election affidavits - **Notes**: MyNeta is a civic-facing index for election transparency in India, pulling candidate filings from the official system and presenting them in usable, comparable formats. It is especially useful for tracking declared criminal cases, assets, liabilities and education claims across candidates and elections, then linking that back to constituency-level accountability work. ### Narrative Hub / The Climate Narrative Hub - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/narrative-hub-the-climate-narrative-hub - **Source URL**: https://www.theclimatenarrative.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Climate, Media - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Climate storytelling and narrative-change hub connecting communicators, creators, funders, and civil society. - **Notes**: The Climate Narrative Hub connects climate communicators, media creators, and civil society organisations to shift public climate narratives through coordinated storytelling. It operates as a practitioner network for strategic narrative change. ### NASA Earthdata - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nasa-earthdata - **Source URL**: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Land, Disasters - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: NASA's gateway to Earth observation data — fires, vegetation, rainfall, temperature, oceans, ice, and 1,000+ imagery layers through Worldview - **Notes**: An enormous umbrella covering MODIS, VIIRS, SRTM, GPM, GRACE, and dozens of other instruments. The NASA Worldview browser exposes 1,000+ global imagery layers — daily snapshots of fires, floods, aerosols, vegetation health, sea surface temperature, and much more. For India-specific research: MODIS burned area (fire tracking), SRTM elevation data, GPM IMERG rainfall, and MODIS NDVI for vegetation health. The Earthdata API and Common Metadata Repository provide programmatic access. Free NASA Earthdata login required. ### NASA FIRMS - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nasa-firms - **Source URL**: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Agriculture, Disasters - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Satellite-detected fires and thermal anomalies in near-real-time — the standard source for tracking forest fires, crop burning, and industrial hotspots - **Notes**: FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) distributes near-real-time active fire data from the MODIS and VIIRS satellite instruments. For India, FIRMS is the primary data source for tracking crop residue burning in Punjab and Haryana (the annual stubble-burning crisis), forest fires in the Western Ghats and Central India, and industrial thermal anomalies. The 3-hourly VIIRS data detects fires as small as a few hundred square metres. The Fire Map and API provide data within 3 hours of satellite overpass. Essential for environmental journalism and air pollution research. ### NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nasa-giss-surface-temperature-analysis - **Source URL**: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: NASA Goddard Institute's global surface temperature record — one of the four canonical datasets used to measure global warming, with monthly updates since 1880 - **Notes**: GISTEMP is one of the four primary global temperature records (alongside HadCRUT, NOAA, and Berkeley Earth) that the IPCC and every climate assessment rely on. NASA GISS also publishes sectoral climate datasets: aerosols, clouds, radiation balance, and climate model outputs (NCCS). The GISTEMP station data maps are particularly useful for checking regional coverage quality. ### NASA POWER - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nasa-power - **Source URL**: https://power.larc.nasa.gov/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Energy, Agriculture, Water - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: NASA's solar and meteorological data — daily temperature, precipitation, radiation, wind, and humidity from 1981, for renewable energy and agriculture - **Notes**: NASA POWER (Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources) provides global gridded meteorological data at 0.5° resolution from 1981 to near-real-time (2-3 day delay). Parameters include temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, solar radiation (GHI, DNI, DIF), and wind speed — the exact variables needed for solar panel sizing, crop modelling, and water balance calculations. It has a straightforward REST API, an interactive Data Access Viewer, and is widely used in regions without dense ground instrumentation. ### NASA Worldview - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nasa-worldview - **Source URL**: https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Disasters, Technology - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Interactive browser for over 1,000 global satellite imagery layers, updated within hours of observation, nearly 30 years back - **Notes**: NASA Worldview lets users browse and visualize satellite imagery on demand, built on NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS). Most layers refresh within three hours of observation, geostationary layers update every ten minutes for the past 90 days, and some records reach back nearly 30 years. It supports use cases like wildfire tracking, air quality monitoring, and flood response, with Arctic and Antarctic projections alongside the standard global view. The project is open source, developed by NASA's ESDIS project, and its imagery layers can also be pulled into other mapping tools via GIBS. ### National Council of Applied Economic Research - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ncaer - **Source URL**: https://www.ncaer.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Economy, Demography, Agriculture, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: India's oldest independent economic policy think tank, known for national household surveys, macroeconomic forecasting, and industrial studies - **Notes**: The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), established in 1956 in New Delhi, is India's oldest and largest independent economic policy research institute. NCAER conducts applied empirical economics research across macroeconomics, trade, agriculture, human development, and infrastructure. NCAER is recognized for designing and executing large-scale, representative national surveys, notably the India Human Development Survey (IHDS in partnership with the University of Maryland) and long-term rural household panel studies tracking income mobility and agricultural transitions. ### National Family Health Survey - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nfhs - **Source URL**: https://www.nfhsiips.in/nfhsuser/index.php - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Health, Nutrition, Gender - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: India's large-scale household survey on health, nutrition, fertility and women's status, reported down to district level - **Notes**: Conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences for the health ministry. District-level factsheets are the reason so much Indian health analysis is possible at all — almost nothing else official goes below the state. NFHS-6 (2023–24) fact sheets for India, the states and the union territories are out. The unit-level data and the machine-readable series arrive later and elsewhere — the survey is run by the health ministry but served through MoSPI. ### National Health Profile - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/national-health-profile - **Source URL**: https://cbhidghs.mohfw.gov.in - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Health, Public finance, Demography - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual compendium of Indian health statistics — demography, disease burden, infrastructure, human resources and health finance - **Notes**: Published by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence. The one place where health infrastructure and health workforce counts are pulled together in a single series. ### National Institute of Public Finance and Policy - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nipfp - **Source URL**: https://www.nipfp.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Public finance, Economy, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Autonomous research institute conducting empirical policy research on public economics, tax design, fiscal federalism, and state budgets in India - **Notes**: The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) is an autonomous research institution under India's Ministry of Finance, established in 1976. It functions as the premier center for policy research and advisory on public economics, taxation, government expenditure, and fiscal federalism. NIPFP's faculty and economists produce empirical working papers, assist Finance Commissions with revenue projections, analyze GST implementation dynamics, and evaluate fiscal deficit targets across Union and state governments. ### National Judicial Data Grid - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/njdg - **Source URL**: https://njdg.ecourts.gov.in - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Law & policing, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Live case pendency and disposal figures for India's district and high courts, broken down by age, court and case type - **Notes**: The National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) is a live dashboard showing case pendency and disposal across India's district and subordinate courts, and increasingly the High Courts. You can see exactly how many cases are pending in each court complex, broken down by case type (civil/criminal), age (0-1 year, 1-3, 3-5, 5-10, 10+ years), and stage of proceedings. For researchers and journalists, NJDG provides real-time evidence for arguments about judicial delays and backlog — and for tracking whether reform efforts are working. The Supreme Court's version (SC-NJDG) was launched more recently. Both are part of the eCourts project and are publicly accessible without registration. ### National Multidimensional Poverty Index - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/national-multidimensional-poverty-index - **Source URL**: https://niti.gov.in/divisions/division/sustainable-development-goal - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Welfare, Economy, Demography - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: MPI framework and India-facing material on poverty across education, health, living standards and regional deprivation - **Notes**: The MPI approach is especially useful for India because it moves poverty analysis beyond income and captures deprivation in multiple welfare dimensions. The India-facing material published through NITI and allied institutions is used by civil society and researchers to identify intervention priorities, especially where state-level welfare performance differs sharply within districts. Use it when the question is about "who is left behind" rather than just how much poverty exists in aggregate. ### National Power Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/national-power-portal - **Source URL**: https://www.npp.gov.in/publishedReports - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Energy, Economy, Climate - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Daily and monthly electricity generation, capacity, demand, fuel, outages, reservoirs and transmission reports - **Notes**: The National Power Portal consolidates operational and historical information from electricity generation and transmission utilities. Its report library covers station- and fuel-wise generation, installed capacity, outages, coal and gas supply, hydro reservoirs, transmission lines, substations, electricity consumption and demand at all-India, regional and state levels. Many reports are downloadable in both XLS and PDF, making the report library more reusable than the visual dashboard. Some dashboard panels retain stale labels or placeholders even while the published-report archive is current, so prefer dated files and record whether a figure is tentative, actual, daily or monthly. ### Nature Conservation Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nature-conservation-foundation - **Source URL**: https://www.ncf-india.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Housing - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mysuru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Research-driven conservation across wildlife, habitats, and human-nature relationships. - **Notes**: NCF's public artefacts include Hornbill Watch (citizen-science initiative), Biodiversity Basics (online natural history course), and EcoQuest (nature discovery centre). Its CEROS platform brings together community ecology and restoration work across multiple biodiversity hotspots, and its Nature Guide Training Course creates livelihood pathways through conservation. ### Navadarshanam - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/navadarshanam - **Source URL**: https://navadarshanam.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Agriculture, Energy, Water - **Geography**: India, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 1990 - **Summary**: Rural charitable trust and community exploring ecological approaches to food, farming, energy, water, buildings and waste - **Notes**: Navadarshanam is a public charitable trust and rural community near the Tamil Nadu–Karnataka border. It treats its campus as a continuing experiment in lower-impact living, working across organic food, renewable energy, water, building methods, waste and the relationship between ecological practice and community life. The trust also runs educational programmes and initiatives intended to support nearby small and marginal farmers. It is both a place and an organisation: the residential community carries out daily work, while a board of trustees holds the land and formal responsibility. Visitors should check current programme and stay information rather than assuming unrestricted public access to the campus. ### Navya Jeevan Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/navya-jeevan-foundation - **Source URL**: https://navyajeevanfoundation.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Welfare, Gender, Education, Health - **Geography**: India, Delhi - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 2026 - **Summary**: New Delhi nonprofit supporting women, children and older people through education, skills, relief and community outreach - **Notes**: Navya Jeevan Foundation is a recently incorporated Delhi nonprofit that says it has conducted community initiatives since 2021. Its current work is described as food and essentials distribution, education support, skill-building and awareness programmes intended to help women become more independent and to support children, older people and other under-resourced communities. The organisation was formally registered only in April 2026, so there is not yet a long public record from which to assess continuity or impact. Its website also says both that residential care is a future goal and that it currently provides a home for orphaned children. Soochi does not repeat that contradictory claim; users considering support or referral should confirm services directly. ### NCRB Crime in India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ncrb - **Source URL**: https://www.ncrb.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Law & policing, Gender, Caste - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (Government Open Data License - India) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual national crime statistics compiled from state police records, plus accidental deaths and suicides - **Notes**: The National Crime Records Bureau's Crime in India report is the canonical source for crime statistics in India. Published annually, it provides state and district-level data on IPC crimes (murder, rape, kidnapping, theft, rioting), SLL crimes, crimes against women, children, SC/ST, cyber crimes, accidental deaths, and suicides. For researchers, the data enables analysis of crime patterns, police effectiveness, and criminal justice system performance — though with well-documented limitations around underreporting, misclassification, and political interference in data collection. The data is available as PDF reports and increasingly as downloadable tables. Used by researchers, journalists, and policy analysts despite (and sometimes because of) its limitations. ### NDAP - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ndap - **Source URL**: https://ndap.niti.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Demography, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: NITI Aayog's platform standardising government datasets to a common format so they can be merged across ministries - **Notes**: NITI Aayog's National Data & Analytics Platform (NDAP) is probably the most useful Indian data resource that is still not nearly well-known enough. It brings together datasets from across the government — agriculture, health, education, infrastructure, demography, economy — into a single platform with consistent formatting, a unified search interface, and built-in visualisation tools. For researchers, NDAP dramatically reduces the time spent finding, downloading, cleaning, and merging datasets from different ministries. The platform allows side-by-side comparison of indicators across states and districts, and supports data downloads in multiple formats. NDAP represents the government's most serious attempt to bridge the gap between publishing data and making it actually usable. ### NFSA and Public Distribution Dashboard - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nfsa-dashboard - **Source URL**: https://nfsa.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Welfare, Nutrition, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Ration cards, beneficiaries, fair-price shops, foodgrain allocation, distribution and portability under the NFSA - **Notes**: The National Food Security Act portal links national and state reporting on ration cards, beneficiaries, fair-price shops, depots, foodgrain allocation and supply-chain performance. Its companion Annavitran system tracks portability and distribution transactions under One Nation One Ration Card, while district reports lead into state public-distribution systems. This is federated administrative data: state systems, update dates and report definitions differ, and beneficiary records are not a direct measure of food consumption or nutritional outcomes. Counts can move because cards are added, deleted, transferred, seeded or cleaned. Avoid publishing personally identifying beneficiary details even when a state portal exposes them. ### NHB Residex - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nhb-residex - **Source URL**: https://residex.nhbonline.org.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Housing, Economy, Cities - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: India's official housing price index — quarterly residential price movements for 50 cities, tracking price, completion, and unsold inventory since 2010 - **Notes**: The only systematic housing price dataset for Indian cities. NHB RESIDEX tracks price indices for 50 cities (26 from 2010, 24 added later), separately reporting under-construction and completed property prices. Also publishes the HPI@AssessmentPrice — a valuation-based index using actual bank lending data. Essential for urban economics, housing policy, and real estate research. ### NOAA Climate Data Online - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/noaa-climate-data-online - **Source URL**: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Disasters - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: NOAA's archive of historical weather — station-level daily summaries, global hourly data, and normals for tens of thousands of stations worldwide - **Notes**: CDO is the primary access point for NOAA's vast historical weather archive. For India, it offers daily summaries (temperature, precipitation, wind) from ~200 stations with records stretching back decades — an essential complement to IMD data, particularly for cross-border analysis and for Indian regions where IMD data is hard to obtain. Also publishes the US 1991-2020 Climate Normals and the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-D). ### NPCI UPI Ecosystem Statistics - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/npci-upi-ecosystem-statistics - **Source URL**: https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/upi-ecosystem-statistics - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Technology, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Monthly UPI transaction volumes, values, bank-wise performance, and digital payment adoption across India's real-time payments rail - **Notes**: UPI now processes over 15 billion transactions a month — this is the single best high-frequency indicator of digital adoption and informal economic activity in India. NPCI publishes bank-wise and product-wise breakdowns monthly. The broader Retail Payment Statistics page covers IMPS, NACH, AePS, and NETC (FASTag) as well. ### Nrityagram - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nrityagram - **Source URL**: https://nrityagram.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Odissi dance preservation and Food Forest support near Bengaluru. - **Notes**: Nrityagram is a residential dance village dedicated to Odissi and Indian classical dance. It also maintains an on-campus Food Forest integrating native species and sustainable food production, weaving ecological stewardship into the fabric of a living arts institution. ### NSE Market Pulse - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nse-market-pulse - **Source URL**: https://www.nseindia.com/static/research/publications-reports-nse-market-pulse - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: NSE's periodic market review with Indian equity and debt trend commentary, sector updates and liquidity signals - **Notes**: NSE Market Pulse is a short, practical publication used by analysts and civic economists for market sentiment, sector rotations, and liquidity regime shifts in India. It is not a long-run statistical series by itself, but its periodic commentary is useful for interpreting why interest rates, equity flows and financing conditions are shifting in a given quarter. For policy advocacy teams, it helps translate abstract macro risks into market-facing signals. For data practitioners, it complements RBI and Ministry statistics where market behavior needs explanatory context. ### NVIDIA Parakeet - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nvidia-parakeet - **Source URL**: https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/parakeet-asr - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Media, Education - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Fast, locally runnable speech-to-text models for transcribing interviews, meetings and recordings with punctuation and timestamps - **Notes**: Parakeet is NVIDIA's family of automatic speech-recognition models for turning audio into text. For researchers, the practical starting point is Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3: a downloadable 600-million-parameter model that adds punctuation and capitalisation, returns word- and segment-level timestamps, and can process long recordings. That makes it useful for transcribing interviews, focus groups, meetings, lectures and audiovisual archives without sending sensitive recordings to a transcription service. The checkpoint is released under CC BY 4.0 and works through Hugging Face Transformers or NVIDIA NeMo. Its central limitation for Indian research is language coverage: v3 supports English and 24 other European languages, but no Indic languages, so it is most useful for English-language material in India. It is optimized for Linux systems with NVIDIA GPUs; test accuracy on local accents, noisy field recordings and specialist vocabulary before relying on a transcript. ### NWDP Village Boundaries - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/nwdp-village-boundaries - **Source URL**: https://nwdp.nwic.gov.in/dataset/village-boundary - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Governance, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Free village boundary shapefiles for all Indian states and UTs — downloadable in GeoJSON, KML, and SHP formats from the National Water Data Portal - **Notes**: The National Water Data Portal (NWDP), maintained by the National Water Informatics Centre (NWIC), hosts one of the most requested but hardest-to-find GIS layers for India: village boundary shapefiles covering every state and union territory. Produced by the Geological Survey of India, these files demarcate the geographic boundaries of India's ~660,000 villages. For researchers, civic technologists, and anyone doing spatial analysis of Indian data, village boundaries are essential infrastructure — they let you map any village-level data (Census, MGNREGA, eGramSwaraj, NFHS) onto actual geography. The data is available in three formats (GeoJSON, KML, SHP) and is freely downloadable. The dataset was last updated in May 2025. ### OAQ - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/oaq - **Source URL**: https://oaq.notf.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Environment, Health, Cities - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Partly open (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open platform for live, hyperlocal PM2.5 and PM10 readings from government, research and community monitors across India - **Notes**: OAQ brings readings from CPCB, Airnet and Aurassure monitors into one place, with a live map and charts for comparing air quality over time. Its focus is the neighbourhood scale: helping residents, researchers and community organisations see local PM2.5 and PM10 patterns that city-wide averages can hide. The platform documents a JSON API and licenses its data under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ### OASIS - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/oasis - **Source URL**: https://oasishq.org/ - **Kind**: Community - **Topics**: Technology, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Summary**: Open-Source Alliance for Social Innovation and Sustainability — a network united by the vision that FOSS can empower citizen sector organisations at scale - **Notes**: OASIS (Open-Source Alliance for Social Innovation & Sustainability) is a network of organisations united by the vision that Free and Open-Source Software can empower citizen sector organisations to create positive impact at scale. It addresses the large gap between the social sector and the availability of high-quality FOSS technology. Samagata Foundation is a founding member and patron organisation. ### ODK (Open Data Kit) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/odk - **Source URL**: https://getodk.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Health, Agriculture - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Apache 2.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The open-source foundation for mobile data collection — build forms, collect offline on Android, and manage submissions, used by field teams worldwide - **Notes**: ODK is the underlying engine behind KoboToolbox and many other mobile data collection platforms. It provides the core tools — ODK Collect (Android app for offline form filling), ODK Central (server for managing forms and submissions), and XLSForm (spreadsheet-based form design). For Indian civil society, ODK's significance is that it works reliably in low-connectivity environments — field workers can collect survey data in remote villages, forest areas, and urban slums without internet, and sync when they return to connectivity. Thousands of Indian research studies, NGO monitoring systems, and government surveys run on ODK or its derivatives. The ecosystem is entirely open-source, with a large global community and excellent documentation. ### OECD Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/oecd-data - **Source URL**: https://www.oecd.org/en/data.html - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Governance, Education - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: OECD statistics across economy, environment, health, education and public governance, with non-member countries including India - **Notes**: India is not a member, but appears in many series as a key partner economy — coverage is patchier than for member countries. ### Online RTI Automation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/online-rti-automation - **Source URL**: https://github.com/gouthamganeshm/online_rti_automation - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Governance, Transparency, Technology - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: AI-driven workflow automating Right to Information filings on Central and Karnataka portals using Claude Code and Playwright - **Notes**: Online RTI Automation is an open-source civic technology workflow designed to automate Right to Information (RTI) filings on both the Central government portal (rtionline.gov.in) and the Karnataka state portal (rtionline.karnataka.gov.in). The framework uses Claude Code CLI paired with Playwright CLI to execute reusable instruction templates (`rti_submit_request_template.md` and `karnataka_rti_submit_request_template.md`). It automates complex form navigation and department selection using curated reference databases of public authorities, while preserving human-in-the-loop security for OTP verification and fee payments. ### Ooru - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ooru - **Source URL**: https://ooru.space - **Kind**: Directory - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Education, Cities - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY-SA 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Crowd-sourced directory of public community spaces across India — libraries, makerspaces, museums, science centres and galleries - **Notes**: Maintained by Samagata Foundation, covering 28 states and union territories. The whole dataset downloads as CSV, which makes it one of the few Indian cultural-infrastructure datasets you can actually analyse. ### Oorvani Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/oorvani-foundation - **Source URL**: https://oorvani.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Education, Media - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Connecting people with civic information for better cities through media, data, and learning. - **Notes**: Oorvani Foundation runs Citizen Matters (civic media platform), Open City (urban data commons), and the Civic Learning Hub (workshops, datajams, hackathons). Its three-step changemaking process — sensemaking, strengthening agency, problem solving — links information, data, resources, and networks so citizens can move from understanding to action. ### Open Budgets India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/open-budgets-india - **Source URL**: https://openbudgetsindia.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Public finance, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Union, state and municipal budget documents converted from PDFs into machine-readable data you can actually analyse - **Notes**: Open Budgets India (OBI) is the single most comprehensive source for machine-readable Indian budget data. While the Union Budget and state budgets are publicly available as PDFs, OBI converts them into structured, analysable datasets. It covers Union Budget expenditures, state budgets, municipal budgets, and scheme-level allocations. For researchers, OBI solves the fundamental problem of Indian fiscal analysis: budget documents are designed for parliamentary presentation, not quantitative research. OBI's cleaned datasets let you compare allocations across years, across states, and across schemes without spending weeks cleaning PDF-scraped data. The platform is maintained by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA). ### Open Contracting Partnership - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/open-contracting-partnership - **Source URL**: https://www.open-contracting.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Transparency, Public finance, Governance, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: International non-profit opening up public procurement data and contracting processes to prevent corruption and improve public spending - **Notes**: The Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) is an independent non-profit organisation that works globally to make government public procurement open, transparent, and accountable. It stewards the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS), an internationally recognized open data schema for publishing public contracting data from planning to execution. OCP works with governments, civic watchdog organizations, and journalists across more than 50 countries to open up procurement datasets, identify anti-competitive bidding patterns, and ensure public funds are spent equitably on essential civic infrastructure and services. ### Open India Law - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/open-india-law - **Source URL**: https://github.com/Vaquill-AI/open-india-law - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Law & policing, Governance, Transparency, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Partly open - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Bulk dataset of 32.5M Indian judgment chunks, 1.1M legislation provisions, and tribunal matters, with the scrapers that build it - **Notes**: Open India Law is a bulk dataset of Indian primary legal documents built and open-sourced by Vaquill AI, a commercial legal data company. It holds 32.5 million judgment chunks from the Supreme Court and 25 High Courts (1950-2025), 1.1 million legislation provisions across Central, State and Union Territory law, 813,000 tribunal and regulator matters from 15 forums, and vector embeddings for semantic search. The repository ships the scrapers alongside the data: normalized text extracted from scanned PDFs, section-level indexing, Parquet files for bulk access, and Qdrant vector collections. Scripts are Apache 2.0; the compiled data is CC BY 4.0 with attribution required, while the underlying government text remains reproducible under Indian copyright law. ### Open Knowledge Repository - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/open-knowledge-repository - **Source URL**: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org - **Kind**: Directory - **Topics**: Economy, Environment, Governance, Education - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: World Bank’s open-access repository for papers, working papers, books and research outputs across development sectors - **Notes**: The Open Knowledge Repository is the World Bank’s main channel for open access publications and working papers. It is useful as a discovery layer when you need official working papers, policy briefs, conference papers and reports that may not yet be indexed in flagship publication pages. For India-centric research, it is especially useful for pulling background material, impact evaluations and sector-specific technical notes to support evidence-based writing. ### Open-Meteo - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/open-meteo - **Source URL**: https://open-meteo.com/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Disasters, Agriculture, Energy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Free open-source weather API — forecasts and historical weather from 1940 using the best global models, with no API key or registration required - **Notes**: Open-Meteo aggregates the best open forecast models (GFS, ECMWF IFS, DWD ICON, MeteoFrance, JMA, GEM) and historical reanalysis (ERA5, ERA5-Land, CERRA) behind a clean REST API — no API key, no registration, no rate limits. For any coordinate in India, you can get 7-day to 16-day forecasts or 80+ years of hourly historical weather. Air quality forecasts from CAMS are also available. Increasingly used as a drop-in replacement for commercial weather APIs in research and civic tech. ### OpenAQ - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/openaq - **Source URL**: https://openaq.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Environment, Health, Cities - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Aggregated ground-level air quality from 150+ countries — harmonised, API-accessible, and far easier to work with than individual government portals - **Notes**: OpenAQ is the single best starting point for anyone doing air pollution research in India. It aggregates PM2.5, PM10, NO₂, SO₂, CO, O₃, and BC data from government monitoring networks (CPCB in India), low-cost sensors, and reference-grade instruments worldwide — all harmonised to a common format with a fast REST API. For India, this means you query data from Delhi, Kanpur, Bengaluru, and Mumbai in the same API call with the same units and quality flags, instead of wrangling separate state PCB portals. The platform is free, community-governed, and powers most air quality apps and research papers. ### OpenCity - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/open-city - **Source URL**: https://opencity.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Cities, Public finance, Transport - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Urban data for Indian cities — budgets, mobility, ward boundaries and public records, from official sources and community contributions - **Notes**: OpenCity is Oorvani Foundation's urban data commons platform, designed to make Indian city data accessible and usable. It hosts datasets on city budgets, municipal finance, ward boundaries, mobility, public services, and environmental indicators — structured around the needs of civic researchers, journalists, and activists rather than government reporting requirements. OpenCity also runs data jams and community data collection events, building a practice of collaborative urban data stewardship. For anyone working on Indian urban issues, OpenCity provides both data and a model for how civic data infrastructure should work: open, maintainable, and connected to community action. ### OpenEcon.ai - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/openecon-ai - **Source URL**: https://openecon.ai/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Economy, Technology - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source AI tools and MCP servers connecting assistants to 330,000+ economic indicators, Stata, MATLAB, and academic writing workflows - **Notes**: OpenEcon.ai is an open-source initiative founded by economist Lu Han that equips modern AI assistants (such as Claude Code and Codex) with specialized tools for economics research and econometrics. The project encompasses: - **Economic Data Search** (`data.openecon.ai`): A natural-language interface and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server indexing over 330,000 economic indicators across global databases (including the World Bank and FRED). - **Stata MCP Server & MATLAB Integration**: Tools that allow LLM agents to safely execute statistical code, generate figures, and export publication-ready regression tables. - **Workflow Skills**: Standardized agent skills for automated referee report generation, Beamer presentation slide drafting, literature synthesis, and Overleaf synchronization. ### OpenHistoricalMap - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/openhistoricalmap - **Source URL**: https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Demography, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC0-1.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open, crowd-sourced historical world map documenting geographic and political boundaries across centuries using OpenStreetMap infrastructure - **Notes**: OpenHistoricalMap (OHM) is a collaborative, open-source project that uses OpenStreetMap technology to map the world throughout history. Unlike modern base maps, OHM adds a temporal dimension to every geographic feature, allowing users to move through time and visualise borders, rail lines, settlements, and territorial changes from antiquity to the present. The project is freely editable and maintained by a global community of cartographers, historians, and geographers. All vector map data is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0, and can be queried, filtered by year, and embedded in historical research and digital humanities projects. ### OpenRefine - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/openrefine - **Source URL**: https://openrefine.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (BSD) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Powerful free tool for cleaning messy data — transform, reconcile, and extend datasets with web services, essential for government spreadsheet work - **Notes**: OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a desktop application for working with messy data. It excels at tasks that are painful in Excel: normalising inconsistent spellings (Bangalore/Bengaluru/Bangaluru → one value), splitting multi-valued columns, clustering similar text, parsing dates in a dozen formats, and reconciling names against external databases (Wikidata, VIAF). For Indian researchers, OpenRefine is particularly valuable for cleaning government datasets — district names that don't match across ministries, scheme names with variant spellings, caste categories that changed between census rounds. It also supports GREL (General Refine Expression Language) for advanced transformations. Free, open-source, runs locally on your machine. ### OpenSanctions - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/opensanctions - **Source URL**: https://www.opensanctions.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Transparency, Governance, Law & policing, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC-BY-4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source database and matching engine consolidating international sanctions, politically exposed persons, and public procurement blacklists - **Notes**: OpenSanctions is an international, open-source database of persons and entities of public interest. It continuously aggregates, cleans, and deduplicates official data from dozens of governments and multilateral bodies, including international sanctions lists, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), debarred public contractors, and high-level judicial targets. For civic technologists, journalists, and non-profit compliance researchers, OpenSanctions provides a free, open-access alternative to expensive commercial risk-intelligence databases (like World-Check). Data is structured in the FollowTheMoney schema and made accessible via bulk CSV/JSON downloads, a command-line matching tool (Zavod), and a documented REST API. ### OpenSpeaks Tools - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/openspeaks-tools - **Source URL**: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenSpeaks/Tools - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Technology, Rights, Media - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Offline-oriented tools for subtitling, organising media and documenting oral knowledge in Indigenous and low-resourced languages - **Notes**: OpenSpeaks develops three small browser-based applications for community language documenters and archivists. Subtitler edits captions for local media; Tome records consent, provenance, participants and other oral-knowledge metadata; and Bento inspects, organises, measures and compresses audio and video collections. The tools are designed to remain usable with slow or absent connectivity and to keep private or sensitive recordings on the user's device. They interoperate with Wikimedia Commons and specialist archive metadata formats. All three are open source and free, but remain in alpha or beta and should be tested carefully before being made part of a critical archival workflow. ### OpenStreetMap - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/openstreetmap - **Source URL**: https://www.openstreetmap.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Cities, Transport, Technology - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (ODbL) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: A map of the world built and owned by its contributors, and the base layer under a large share of civic mapping work - **Notes**: OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the Wikipedia of maps — a free, editable map of the world built and maintained by a global community of volunteers. It contains roads, buildings, amenities, hospitals, schools, shops, bus stops, water bodies, administrative boundaries, and countless other features. For Indian civic research, OSM is extraordinarily powerful: combined with population grids (WorldPop) and government data, it enables detailed accessibility analysis (how many people live within 1 km of a hospital?), infrastructure mapping, and urban planning. OSM data for India is surprisingly comprehensive in major cities and steadily improving elsewhere, thanks to active mapping communities. The data is free, open (ODbL licence), and accessible through multiple APIs and bulk downloads. ### OpenTripPlanner - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/opentripplanner - **Source URL**: https://www.opentripplanner.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Transport, Cities, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (LGPL-3.0-or-later) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source multimodal transit routing engine combining OpenStreetMap road networks and GTFS transit schedules for journey planning and transit analysis - **Notes**: OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is an open-source multimodal passenger routing and accessibility analysis engine. It consumes standard General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS and GTFS-Realtime) transit data together with OpenStreetMap (OSM) pedestrian, cycling, and road networks to compute realistic journey trajectories across buses, trains, metros, walking, and shared mobility. Urban planners, transport researchers, and civic advocacy groups use OTP to model public transit accessibility, measure transit equity across lower-income neighbourhoods, and evaluate the impact of proposed transit route changes or bus frequency adjustments. ### Operational WeatherBench - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/operational-weatherbench - **Source URL**: https://owb.brightband.com/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Climate, Disasters, Technology - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (CC-BY-4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Independent daily-scored skill leaderboard evaluating AI and physics-based global weather forecast models - **Notes**: Operational WeatherBench (OWB) is an open-access benchmarking platform developed by Brightband PBC that provides daily skill rankings for machine learning weather prediction models alongside operational NWP baselines. Scoring models like WeatherNext 3, GraphCast, Aurora, and AIFS against ECMWF and NOAA GFS analysis fields, OWB provides objective meteorological verification (RMSE, ACC, CRPS) across key atmospheric levels. ### Organic Mandya - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/organic-mandya - **Source URL**: https://www.organicmandya.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Agriculture, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mandya, Karnataka - **Summary**: Empowering rural communities towards self-sufficiency through organic farming and farmer-consumer networks. - **Notes**: Organic Mandya runs farm-to-fork retail outlets connecting organic farmers directly with urban consumers, eliminating middlemen to ensure fair prices for farmers and fresh organic produce for consumers. Its training programmes support farmers in transition to organic cultivation. ### Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/occrp - **Source URL**: https://www.occrp.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Transparency, Law & policing, Media, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Global network of investigative journalists uncovering transnational crime, state corruption, and financial secrecy networks - **Notes**: The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is an international non-profit investigative journalism organization founded in 2006. Operating across six continents, OCCRP connects independent media outlets to investigate cross-border financial crime, money laundering, high-level political kleptocracy, and environmental looting. OCCRP develops and maintains Aleph, an open-source data indexing and cross-referencing platform housing over 400 million public and leaked records. Its investigations have led to asset seizures, resignations of corrupt officials, and international sanctions enforcement. ### Our World in Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/our-world-in-data - **Source URL**: https://ourworldindata.org - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Health, Climate, Economy, Energy - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Oxford - **Summary**: Long-run global data on health, poverty, energy and emissions, with every chart downloadable and every source cited - **Notes**: Our World in Data (OWID), based at the University of Oxford, is one of the most important public data resources of the modern era. It takes complex global datasets — from the UN, World Bank, WHO, and academic research — and presents them as clear, interactive charts with thorough methodological notes. For India, OWID provides pre-processed, ready-to-use data on nearly every development topic: poverty, health, education, energy, environment, and demographics. What makes OWID special is that every chart links to the underlying data (downloadable as CSV) and the original source, making it both a discovery tool and a reliable citation chain. The entire platform is open-source and all data is CC BY licensed. ### Overpass Turbo - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/overpass-turbo - **Source URL**: https://overpass-turbo.eu/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Cities, Technology, Land - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Web-based query tool for OpenStreetMap — run spatial queries like 'all hospitals in Bangalore' or 'all water bodies in this district' and export as GeoJSON - **Notes**: Overpass Turbo is the easiest way to extract data from OpenStreetMap. Instead of downloading the entire planet, you write (or use the wizard to generate) queries that return exactly what you need: all schools within a city boundary, all water bodies in a watershed, all roads with a certain classification, all buildings tagged as hospitals. Results can be exported as GeoJSON, GPX, KML, or raw OSM XML. For Indian civic research, Overpass Turbo is transformative — it turns OSM from a map you look at into a database you can query for infrastructure analysis, service accessibility studies, and urban planning. The Overpass API that powers it is free and open, and the query language is well-documented. ### Oxford Institute for Energy Studies - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/oxford-institute-for-energy-studies - **Source URL**: https://www.oxfordenergy.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Energy, Climate, Economy, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 1982 - **Location**: Oxford, England - **Summary**: Independent research institute analysing global energy markets, policy and transition across oil, gas, electricity and carbon - **Notes**: OIES publishes research on the economics and politics of energy markets and decarbonisation. Its programmes cover oil, gas, electricity, carbon management, hydrogen, China and the wider energy transition, with research papers, shorter commentary, a quarterly forum and podcasts available through the site. The archive includes India-specific work on electricity markets, rooftop solar, clean mobility and gas-sector reform. The institute is independent and non-profit, but its research is not presented under a general open licence. ### Paadhai Trust - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/paadhai-trust - **Source URL**: https://paadhai.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Education - **Geography**: India, Tamil Nadu - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Connecting donors and impoverished groups, focusing on education and community welfare. - **Notes**: Paadhai Trust facilitates direct connections between donors and underserved communities, running education support programmes and community welfare interventions in Tamil Nadu. ### Paani Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/paani-foundation - **Source URL**: https://www.paanifoundation.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Environment - **Geography**: India, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Community-led water conservation and climate-resilient rural livelihoods focused on drought-prone Maharashtra. - **Notes**: Paani Foundation's flagship Satyamev Jayate Water Cup is a public mobilisation competition for drought-proofing villages through collective watershed action. It frames drought response as a community capability problem, combining local participation, competition, and practical conservation methods. ### Paani.Earth - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/paani-earth - **Source URL**: https://paani.earth/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Water, Environment, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Citizen-led river basin observatory providing open data on water flow, reservoir storage, and catchment health in India - **Notes**: Paani.Earth is an open-access environmental data think tank and research observatory based in Bengaluru that addresses the mismanagement of river basins, drying catchments, and urban water vulnerability across India. The initiative builds River Basin Information Systems (RBIS) that bring together spatial mapping, river discharge rates, dam storage levels, and water distribution matrices across basins like the Cauvery, Krishna, Arkavathi, and Vrishabhavathi. By opening hydrological data to the public, Paani.Earth enables researchers, journalists, and citizens to conduct evidence-based water audits and participate in river restoration. ### Padraka Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/padraka-foundation - **Source URL**: https://livinglandscapes.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Labour - **Geography**: India, Telangana - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Hyderabad, Telangana - **Summary**: Systems entrepreneurship in environmental governance. - **Notes**: Padraka Foundation applies entrepreneurial methods to fix systemic gaps in environmental governance, developing tools and systems for improving environmental compliance and stewardship. ### Palar Guttahalli Eco-restoration Program - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/palar-guttahalli-eco-restoration-program - **Source URL**: https://rcb1934.in/palar-guttahalli-eco-restoration-program/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Land - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Kaiwara, Karnataka - **Summary**: Eco-restoration of the upper Palar River basin through riverine afforestation, groundwater recharge, and community-led landscape recovery. - **Notes**: Palar Guttahalli Eco-restoration Program works on eco-restoration of the upper Palar River basin through riverine afforestation, groundwater recharge, and community-led landscape recovery in Karnataka. ### Palluyir Trust - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/palluyir-trust - **Source URL**: https://palluyir.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Education - **Geography**: India, Tamil Nadu - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Chennai, Tamil Nadu - **Summary**: Nature-based outdoor education in Chennai schools. - **Notes**: Palluyir Trust runs structured outdoor and nature-based learning programmes for Chennai school students, using outdoor experiences and natural settings to build ecological literacy in children. ### Paper Crane Lab - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/paper-crane-lab - **Source URL**: https://pclprojects.wordpress.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Technology - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Summary**: Maker space in Bangalore focusing on experiential STEM education through the intersection of art and science — from 3D printing to carpentry and papercraft - **Notes**: Paper Crane Lab (PCL) is a not-for-profit focusing on experiential STEM education through the intersection of art and science. Operating a small maker space in Indiranagar, Bangalore, children gather to tinker with technologies and crafts — from 3D printing to carpentry to papercraft. Samagata Foundation backed the expansion of PCL's existing space. ### Paperless-ngx - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/paperless-ngx - **Source URL**: https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Transparency, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL-3.0-only) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source document management system that transforms physical scans and digital documents into a searchable archive with OCR and automated tagging - **Notes**: Paperless-ngx is a community-maintained, open-source document management system designed to index, organize, and search personal and institutional paper trails. It ingests PDFs, images, office documents, and emails from watch folders, scanners, or its web interface, runs optical character recognition (OCR) via Tesseract, and generates searchable PDF archives. The software uses machine learning to automatically match tags, correspondents, document types, and custom metadata fields based on document contents. It includes a REST API, multi-user permissions, audit workflows, and full-text search with auto-completion and highlighting. For researchers, legal teams, journalists, and civic groups handling large volumes of scanned records, Right to Information (RTI) responses, or public filings, Paperless-ngx provides a self-hostable, private alternative to proprietary document archives. ### PARIVESH - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/parivesh - **Source URL**: https://parivesh.nic.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Environment, Land, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Environmental, forest and wildlife clearance applications and decisions for Indian projects, with the documents attached - **Notes**: PARIVESH (Pro-Active and Responsive facilitation by Interactive, Virtuous and Environmental Single-window Hub) is the government's online portal for environmental, forest, and wildlife clearances. It publishes every clearance application, the associated documents (EIA reports, public hearing records, expert committee minutes), and the final decision. For researchers and journalists, PARIVESH is the primary tool for tracking what is being built through India's forests, coasts, and ecologically sensitive areas — and for holding the clearance process accountable. The data enables analysis of clearance timelines, approval rates by state and sector, and compliance with environmental conditions. An essential transparency infrastructure, though the interface can be challenging. ### ParliamentWatch - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/parliamentwatch - **Source URL**: https://parliamentcommittee.streamlit.app/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Governance, Transparency, Public finance, Law & policing - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Search, extract, download and track Indian Parliamentary Committee reports, with optional summaries and publication alerts - **Notes**: ParliamentWatch gathers reports from all 24 Departmentally Related Standing Committees and makes them easier to browse by committee, Lok Sabha, date and report category. It can search titles and extracted PDF text, download English and Hindi reports, export metadata or text, and send daily alerts when new reports appear. AI-generated plain-language summaries are optional and can use a local model or an external provider. The hosted demo currently requires a Streamlit sign-in and resets between sessions; researchers can run the application locally for persistent files and summaries. The public repository does not currently declare a recognised software licence, so reuse rights should not be assumed from source availability alone. ### PDF Inspector - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/pdf-inspector - **Source URL**: https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source PDF structure visualisation — inspect text blocks, images, and metadata inside any PDF, essential for debugging document parsing - **Notes**: PDF Inspector is a companion tool to AnyDoc from Firecrawl. It lets you visually inspect the internal structure of any PDF — text blocks, images, fonts, metadata, and the document's internal object tree. For anyone building a document processing pipeline (extracting tables from government reports, parsing scanned forms, preparing documents for LLM ingestion), PDF Inspector reveals why a particular PDF is parsing incorrectly: is the text actually embedded or is it an image? Are the tables using real table structures or just positioned text? Is the font encoding garbled? The tool runs in the browser — just drag and drop a PDF — and requires no setup. MIT-licensed, from the same team as AnyDoc. ### People's Archive of Rural India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/peoples-archive-of-rural-india - **Source URL**: https://ruralindiaonline.org - **Kind**: Archive - **Topics**: Agriculture, Caste, Media, Gender - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: A living archive of rural Indian life — reporting, photographs, oral histories and video, in more than a dozen languages - **Notes**: The translation programme is the part worth knowing about: much of the material exists in the languages of the people it documents, not only in English. That makes it one of the few archives you can hand back to the communities it came from. ### People's Union for Civil Liberties - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/peoples-union-for-civil-liberties - **Source URL**: https://pucl.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Rights, Law & policing, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: India's oldest human rights membership organisation, conducting fact-finding inquiries and litigation for civil liberties and constitutional rights - **Notes**: The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) was founded in 1976 by socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan during the Indian Emergency to defend civil liberties and fundamental constitutional rights. It is one of the largest membership-based human rights organisations in India, with active state chapters across the country. PUCL is renowned for sending independent fact-finding teams to investigate custodial deaths, communal violence, state overreach, and encounters, publishing detailed public reports. Its public interest litigations in the Supreme Court have shaped landmark jurisprudence on the right to food, privacy, surveillance guidelines, and electoral accountability (NOTA). ### Periodic Labour Force Survey - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/plfs - **Source URL**: https://microdata.gov.in/NADA/index.php/catalog/PLFS - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Labour, Economy, Gender - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: India's principal recurring survey of employment, unemployment, labour-force participation and working conditions - **Notes**: The Periodic Labour Force Survey is the main recurring official source for employment, unemployment and labour-force participation in India. Its person- and household-level files support analysis by sex, age, education, industry, occupation, employment status, earnings and rural or urban location; published reports provide the standard headline indicators. The survey design was revamped from January 2025 to produce more frequent all-India and state-level estimates. Results from the redesigned series should therefore not be joined mechanically to older rounds: check the reference period, status measure and MoSPI comparability notes before making a trend. ### Phenomenal World - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/phenomenal-world - **Source URL**: https://phenomenalworld.org/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Governance, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: A publication on political economy with rigorous writing on economics, history, policy, and politics. - **Notes**: Phenomenal World publishes articles and essays focused on political economy and public institutions. It is oriented to readers looking for analytical work on policy and societal change. ### Platform for Commons - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/platform-for-commons - **Source URL**: https://platformcommons.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Systemic digital and organisational infrastructure for commoning and social change. - **Notes**: Platform Commons has built The Commons Platform (multi-tenant, multilingual, offline-first digital infrastructure), Better Together (volunteer management), Commons Shiksha (ed-tech), and Commons Academy (practice-based learning). Its Platform Commons License articulates equitability, community ownership, and self-determination as platform principles. ### PM Awas Yojana (Urban) MIS - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/pm-awas-yojana-urban-mis - **Source URL**: https://pmaymis.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Housing, Welfare, Cities - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: PMAY housing scheme progress — houses sanctioned, grounded, and completed across urban and rural verticals, with beneficiary details and state-wise data - **Notes**: The PMAY-U dashboard (PMAY Urban MIS) provides city, district, and state-level progress on India's flagship housing scheme — central assistance released, houses sanctioned, grounded, completed, and beneficiary details by social category. The rural vertical PMAY-G is tracked separately through the AwaasSoft platform. Together they cover India's largest housing welfare programme. ### PM-KISAN - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/pm-kisan - **Source URL**: https://pmkisan.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Agriculture, Welfare, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi — farmer income support dashboard tracking beneficiaries, payments, and state-wise coverage for 110M+ farmer families - **Notes**: India's flagship direct income support scheme for farmers — ₹6,000 per year per eligible farmer family. The dashboard tracks fund transfers, beneficiary counts, eKYC completion rates, and state-wise implementation progress. An essential welfare-outlay tracker with unparalleled coverage of India's agricultural households. ### PMGSY Rural Roads Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/pmgsy-rural-roads-portal - **Source URL**: https://omms.nic.in/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Transport, Welfare, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana — road-level data on rural road construction, connectivity status, and expenditure across India's rural road network - **Notes**: PMGSY is India's programme to provide all-weather road connectivity to unconnected rural habitations. The OMMS (Online Management, Monitoring and Accounting System) portal provides habitation-level connectivity status, road-wise construction progress, expenditure tracking, and GIS maps of the rural road network. For researchers, this is the definitive source for studying rural connectivity, infrastructure access, and the relationship between road construction and economic outcomes. The public dashboard provides state, district, and block-level summaries. Combine with Census habitation data for connectivity gap analysis. ### Poverty and Shared Prosperity - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-poverty-prosperity-and-planet - **Source URL**: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-prosperity-and-planet - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Welfare, Environment - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: World Bank flagship on poverty, inequality and inclusive growth pathways across economies with implications for climate and social policy - **Notes**: The Poverty and Shared Prosperity reports focus on growth quality, inequality and opportunity gaps, with practical pathways for translating macro growth into welfare gains. For India, this is useful for comparing state and household-level welfare trajectories against broader development strategy and climate adaptation pressures. It is frequently used in development briefs where poverty is being discussed alongside financing constraints and social protection design. ### PPAC Petroleum Statistics - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ppac-petroleum-statistics - **Source URL**: https://ppac.gov.in/index.php - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Energy, Economy, Climate, Transport - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Petroleum and natural-gas production, imports, refining, consumption, prices, taxes and industry infrastructure - **Notes**: The Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell publishes monthly and annual statistics on crude oil, petroleum products and natural gas. Its tables and reports cover domestic production, imports and exports, refinery throughput and capacity, product consumption, LPG and fuel-market indicators, prices, taxes and energy infrastructure; the Oil & Gas Ready Reckoner provides a compact sector overview. Different tables use calendar years, financial years or monthly cumulative periods, and preliminary figures may later be revised. Product categories and units also vary—tonnes, kilolitres, standard cubic metres and energy equivalents are not interchangeable. Preserve the unit, period and revision status when combining series. ### PRADAN - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/pradan - **Source URL**: https://www.pradan.net/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Labour, Gender - **Geography**: India, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Bihar - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Women-led livelihoods, producer collectives, and rural development systems change. - **Notes**: PRADAN's named programmes — LEAP, PROWFIT, START, SAFALTA — support women farmers through market access, FPO strengthening, and socio-technical value-chain models. Its women-led producer organisation strategy combines livelihoods with gender, governance, health, climate, and skilling. ### Praja - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/praja - **Source URL**: https://praja.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Maharashtra, Delhi - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Data-driven urban governance research, report cards, and citizen accountability tools. - **Notes**: Praja is widely known for public scorecards and performance reports that make civic representation and urban services more legible. Its core contribution is translating municipal complexity into data-backed public accountability and informed citizen action. ### Prayas (Energy Group) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/prayas-energy-group - **Source URL**: https://www.prayaspune.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Energy, Climate, Governance, Public finance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit research collective shaping Indian electricity sector governance, renewable energy tariffs, distribution reforms, and efficiency standards - **Notes**: Prayas (Energy Group) is an independent, non-profit research and advocacy group founded in Pune in 1990. It works to advance public interest in the energy sector through rigorous analysis of regulatory frameworks, power purchase agreements, renewable energy transitions, and electricity distribution company (DISCOM) finances. Prayas actively engages in electricity regulatory commissions across Indian states, submitting data-driven interventions on consumer tariffs, rural electrification quality, appliance energy efficiency, and just energy transitions. ### Progress of the World’s Women - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unglobal-worlds-women - **Source URL**: https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/progress-of-the-worlds-women - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Gender, Welfare, Governance, Education - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UN Women flagship publication series on global gender progress with periodic benchmark reports and indicator-backed equity framing - **Notes**: Progress of the World’s Women is a strong periodic publication for advocacy and programme design because it combines gender outcomes with institutional and legal context. For India-focused work, it is useful for setting measurable equality targets in employment, safety, care burden and leadership outcomes when local administrative data is fragmented. It is best used alongside India-specific laws and state budgets to convert global benchmarks into actionable recommendations. ### PRS Legislative Research - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/prs-legislative-research - **Source URL**: https://prsindia.org - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Governance, Elections - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Plain-language summaries of every bill before the Indian Parliament, plus budget analysis and MP attendance records - **Notes**: PRS Legislative Research is India's premier independent legislative research institution. It tracks every bill introduced in Parliament, publishes detailed legislative briefs analysing proposed laws, provides MP and MLA performance data (attendance, questions asked, debates participated in), and maintains a searchable archive of legislation. For researchers and journalists, PRS is indispensable — their bill summaries and analysis are often the most accessible explanation of complex legislation. The MP track tool is widely used for evaluating parliamentary performance. PRS also produces state-level legislative analysis and budget briefs. ### Public Finance Playground - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/public-finance-playground - **Source URL**: https://fiscalplayground.in - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Public finance, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Interactive tools for exploring India's Union tax allocation, subnational fiscal indicators, and structured nine-dimension budget analysis - **Notes**: Public Finance Playground (fiscalplayground.in) is a suite of interactive, open-access web tools designed to make Indian public economics, taxation, and subnational budgets intuitive and practical for citizens, journalists, researchers, and students. Developed by Sarthak Pradhan and Pranay Kotasthane as companion tools to their book *Fiscal Fables: A Citizen's Guide to Public Finance* (Penguin Business), the playground translates complex fiscal documents into structured, exploratory interfaces. The playground brings together three core tools: - **Where Did My Income Tax Go?**: An interactive tax-transparency calculator that breaks down an individual's personal income tax contribution into exact rupee amounts allocated across Union government functions for FY2025-26. It maps individual tax rupees to national defence, transport infrastructure, major social welfare schemes, agriculture, education, healthcare, interest obligations, and transfers to states. - **State Fiscal Indicators**: A comparative subnational explorer tracking fiscal health across all Indian states and Union Territories. Drawing on state budget data and GSDP estimates, it visualises key fiscal aggregates such as revenue receipts, own-tax buoyancy, development versus non-development expenditure, debt-to-GSDP ratios, and fiscal deficit trajectories over time. - **State Budget Analyser**: A client-side document intelligence and evaluation tool that ingests state budget speech PDFs and financial statements. It automatically extracts and computes indicators across a comprehensive 9-dimension framework — covering revenue profile, expenditure quality, committed expenditure, fiscal position, debt sustainability, off-budget borrowings, subsidy burden, devolution & grants, and budget credibility — including a dedicated "Classroom mode" to test Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) compliance understanding. All applications run entirely in the browser with zero data tracking or registration requirements, and include multiple aesthetic visual modes (Warm Storybook, Modern Playground, and Retro Arcade) designed for accessible classroom teaching, public reporting, and policy research. ### Punarchith - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/punarchith - **Source URL**: https://www.punarchith.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Education, Elections - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Chamarajanagar, Karnataka - **Summary**: Alternative perspectives on education, environment, and democracy. - **Notes**: Punarchith runs community-based education and environmental learning programmes in Chamarajanagar, questioning mainstream development through localised education, ecology, and democratic practice. ### QGIS - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/qgis - **Source URL**: https://qgis.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Land, Cities, Technology, Environment - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL v2) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The standard open-source desktop GIS — full-featured spatial analysis, map-making, and geodata processing, free and cross-platform, with a vast plugin ecosystem - **Notes**: QGIS is the workhorse of open-source geospatial analysis — the free, community-maintained equivalent of ArcGIS. It handles raster and vector data, supports every common GIS format, and has a vast plugin library covering everything from georeferencing to network analysis to 3D visualisation. For Indian researchers and civic organisations, QGIS is essential: it lets you load government shapefiles (Survey of India, NWDP village boundaries), overlay them with satellite imagery (Sentinel, Landsat), join them with tabular data (Census, NFHS), and produce publication-quality maps. The interface is approachable for beginners but powerful enough for advanced spatial analysis. Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The QGIS community maintains excellent documentation and tutorials in multiple languages. ### Quarto - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/quarto - **Source URL**: https://quarto.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Education, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source publishing system for reproducible reports, policy briefs, presentations, dashboards, websites and books - **Notes**: Quarto combines narrative text, citations, code and computational output in a single source document. It works with Jupyter and languages including Python, R, Julia and Observable, and can render the same project to HTML, PDF, Word, ePub, presentations and other formats. For research and policy teams, this makes analysis and publication easier to keep in sync: tables and charts can be regenerated when data or code changes. Quarto can also produce complete websites, books and dashboards. It is developed by Posit, while the current command-line tool is free and MIT-licensed. ### Quartz - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/quartz - **Source URL**: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Education - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Batteries-included static site generator turning Markdown folders into websites — the standard for publishing digital gardens and knowledge bases - **Notes**: Quartz is an open-source static site generator purpose-built for digital gardens — interlinked collections of notes, ideas, and knowledge that grow over time. Unlike traditional blogging platforms that emphasise chronological posts, Quartz treats your Markdown files as a network of linked thoughts, with features like backlinks, graph view, full-text search, and local graph visualisation. For researchers, civic organisations, and community groups, Quartz is the ideal tool for publishing documentation wikis, research notes, project handbooks, or collective knowledge bases that evolve with the work. It requires no database, generates static HTML (fast, secure, cheap to host), and can be deployed to GitHub Pages or any static host. 12K+ GitHub stars, MIT-licensed, actively maintained. ### Rainmatter Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rainmatter-foundation - **Source URL**: https://rainmatter.org - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Philanthropy, Climate, Environment, Economy - **Geography**: India - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Funds and connects Indian organisations working on climate action, ecological restoration, and environment-linked livelihoods - **Notes**: Its work spans forests, water, soil, food systems, ecology, energy, transport, and the livelihoods and local economies bound up with them. ### RangDe - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rangde - **Source URL**: https://rangde.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Technology - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam, Meghalaya - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Peer-to-peer lending platform for unbanked communities. - **Notes**: Rang De runs an RBI-regulated NBFC-P2P social investing platform where individuals invest in borrowers from underserved communities. Its impact partner model identifies borrowers and supports their credit access, and it organises Social Impact Trips so investors can see businesses enabled through their investments. ### RapidPro - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rapidpro - **Source URL**: https://rapidpro.github.io/rapidpro/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Health, Welfare, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0-only) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source visual workflow engine by UNICEF for building multi-channel messaging bots and surveys across SMS, WhatsApp, and Telegram - **Notes**: RapidPro is an open-source visual workflow engine designed by UNICEF and Nyaruka for building complex messaging services and frontline data collection workflows without writing code. It allows non-profits, public health agencies, and governments to create interactive chatbots, maternal health alerts, emergency surveys, and feedback loops via SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and voice channels. RapidPro serves as the core digital public infrastructure (DPI) powering global civic platforms such as UNICEF U-Report (connecting millions of youth) and national health registries. It can be fully self-hosted, supports offline-first deployments, and provides webhook integration with external health and welfare databases. ### RBI Database on Indian Economy - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rbi-dbie - **Source URL**: https://dbie.rbi.org.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The Reserve Bank's statistical warehouse — money, banking, external sector, prices and public finance time series - **Notes**: The RBI's Database on Indian Economy (DBiE) is the central bank's statistical warehouse — the authoritative source for data on money supply, banking aggregates, credit and deposits, financial markets, external sector (balance of payments, exchange rates, foreign reserves), prices (CPI, WPI), and public finance. For researchers, DBiE provides long time series (many going back to the 1950s) with consistent definitions and well-documented methodology. The interactive portal allows custom queries, charting, and data downloads. DBiE is maintained by the RBI's Department of Statistics and Information Management and is the most reliable single source for Indian financial and monetary data. ### RBI Handbook of Statistics on Indian States - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rbi-handbook-of-statistics-on-indian-states - **Source URL**: https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/bs_viewcontent.aspx?Id=624 - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Public finance, Economy, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual RBI statistical compendium on state-level banking, public finance and financial inclusion metrics used for state comparisons - **Notes**: This handbook series is a core reference for state-level financial analysis and macro-planning in India. It brings together banking aggregates, public finance data, payment system indicators and selected social sector signals in one annual package. For researchers, it is typically the first stop when a team needs a comparable state-level baseline before deep-dive into sector dashboards. Its limitation is that it is broad rather than transactional, so pair it with DBIE or department-level APIs for operational detail. ### RBI Publications - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rbi-publications - **Source URL**: https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/publications.aspx - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The Reserve Bank's publications archive — Annual Report, Financial Stability Report, Monthly Bulletin, working papers, speeches, and state finance reports - **Notes**: While the RBI's Database on Indian Economy (DBiE) is the statistical warehouse, the RBI Publications portal is where the central bank publishes its analytical and policy outputs. The most important regular publications include: the **Annual Report** (the RBI's definitive account of the economy each year), the **Financial Stability Report** (biannual systemic risk assessment), the **Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India** (annual banking sector health check), the **Monthly Bulletin** (articles, speeches, and current statistics), the **Weekly Statistical Supplement** (high-frequency money and banking data), **State Finances** reports, and the **Working Papers** series. The portal also archives **speeches** by the Governor and Deputy Governors — often the first signal of policy shifts. All publications are freely downloadable as PDFs. ### RBI Report on Municipal Finances - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rbi-report-on-municipal-finances - **Source URL**: https://systemhealth.rbi.org.in/Scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx_head%3DReport%20on%20Municipal%20Finances%281%29.html - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Public finance, Governance, Cities - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: RBI report on municipal revenue, expenditures, debt and cash flow pressures for urban finance monitoring - **Notes**: The Report on Municipal Finances complements state-level fiscal work by drilling into how municipalities finance operations, manage debt and handle transfer dependence. For civic organisations supporting cities, this report is especially useful for understanding structural gaps in property tax buoyancy, service delivery costs and urban borrowing constraints. The annual series gives a national baseline and a useful counterpoint to city-specific budgets or state finance statements, especially during urban reform or fiscal devolution discussions. ### RBI State Finances - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rbi-state-finances - **Source URL**: https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/PublicationsView.aspx?Id=22971 - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Public finance, Economy, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: RBI's annual assessment of state-level fiscal balances, debt, grants and banking interlinkages for subnational policy analysis - **Notes**: State Finances is one of the most useful state-level fiscal publications for civic teams working on intergovernmental finance, municipal capacity and public spending quality. It provides a consistent framework for understanding state revenue, expenditure pressures, debt composition and fiscal risks, often with enough history to support five-to-ten-year trend analysis. Use it when comparing states in state-level policy work; it is stronger as a fiscal diagnostic than a transaction-level data source. For non-profit policy work it is often the closest official benchmark before deeper analysis in finance ministry or CAG releases. ### RCRC - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rcrc - **Source URL**: https://rcdcindia.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Climate - **Geography**: India, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bhubaneswar, Odisha - **Summary**: Rights-based natural resource governance, climate justice, and resilient rural livelihoods. - **Notes**: RCRC (Regional Centre for Development Cooperation) links natural-resource work with community rights, local institutions, and long-horizon resilience. Its programme stack integrates agriculture, water, tribal rights, disaster response, and environmental governance. ### ReapBenefit - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/reapbenefit - **Source URL**: https://www.reapbenefit.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Young citizens solving civic and environmental problems through hyper-local action. - **Notes**: Reap Benefit has a remarkably productised portfolio: Solve Ninja Bot (WhatsApp problem-solving tool), SamaajData (crowdsourced civic data), Samaaja (open-source engagement software), and the DISS framework (Discover-Investigate-Solve-Share). It is building a nationwide movement of first-mile changemakers through hyper-local civic and climate action. ### Regional Science Centre and Planetarium, Calicut - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/regional-science-centre-and-planetarium-calicut - **Source URL**: https://rscpcalicut.org.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Technology - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Summary**: Government science centre in Calicut hosting lakhs of visitors annually with interactive exhibits, 3D space shows, and children's science programmes - **Notes**: Opened in 1997, RSCP hosts lakhs of visitors annually who interact with science and technology exhibits and watch space shows in its large 3D domed projection theatre. It runs exhibitions, activities, and programmes especially for children. Samagata Foundation co-funded a major revamp and modernisation of RSCP's infrastructure through an MoU with the government. ### Restor - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/restor - **Source URL**: https://restor.eco - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Land, Environment, Climate - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open data platform mapping restoration and conservation sites worldwide, with ecological and land-cover data attached to each - **Notes**: Restor is an open data platform for ecological restoration, developed by ETH Zurich's Crowther Lab. It maps restoration and conservation sites worldwide, connecting each site with ecological data — land cover, biodiversity, soil carbon, rainfall, and temperature — from global datasets. For India, Restor provides a way to discover existing restoration projects, understand their ecological context, and connect practitioners. The platform is designed to make restoration transparent, data-driven, and collaborative. Site data is contributed by users; the ecological context layers are from global scientific datasets. ### Road Accident Statistics (MoRTH) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/road-accident-statistics-morth - **Source URL**: https://morth.gov.in/en/road-accident-in-india - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Transport, Health, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual national road crash deaths, injuries, causes, vehicle types, and state-wise data from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways - **Notes**: India has the highest number of road crash deaths globally, and this is the authoritative dataset for transport safety research, infrastructure planning, and public health analysis. Annual reports include granular breakdowns by state, vehicle type, cause, age group, and road classification. The 2023 edition covers ~4.8 lakh road accidents. ### Rural Health Statistics of India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/rural-health-statistics-of-india - **Source URL**: https://asarforindia.github.io/rhs-india/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Health, Demography - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Partly open (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Harmonised rural health facility, infrastructure and workforce statistics for every Indian state and union territory, 2005–2023 - **Notes**: This independent compilation harmonises nineteen editions of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's Rural Health Statistics into 863 indicators. The explorer covers facilities, health workers, infrastructure, coverage and tribal areas, while preserving boundary changes and special values from the reports. The underlying CSV and XLSX files are currently available only by request, so the entry is classified by its openly accessible explorer rather than as a bulk-downloadable dataset. ### Saahas - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/saahas - **Source URL**: https://saahas.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment, Economy - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Waste management based on circular economy principles. - **Notes**: Saahas runs a source-segregation knowledge centre and the Alag Karo behaviour-change campaign for households. Its circular economy framework emphasises keeping materials in circulation while highlighting dignity and better working conditions for waste workers. ### Saath Charitable Trust - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/saath-charitable-trust - **Source URL**: https://saath.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Ahmedabad, Gujarat - **Summary**: Empowering marginalised communities in thriving cities. - **Notes**: Saath runs in-situ slum rehabilitation and affordable housing programmes alongside urban livelihood training centres. Its inclusive urbanisation model integrates housing, livelihoods, and governance for marginalised urban populations. ### Sahaja Samrudha - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sahaja-samrudha - **Source URL**: https://www.sahajasamrudha.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Environment, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 2001 - **Summary**: Organic farmers' movement conserving indigenous crop diversity through seed networks, community banks and participatory research - **Notes**: Sahaja Samrudha is a Karnataka farmers' movement working to conserve agrobiodiversity and make ecological agriculture viable. It connects seed savers and organic farmers, supports community seed banks, conducts participatory research and seed festivals, and works on traditional varieties of rice, millets, vegetables, pulses, cotton and other crops. Sahaja Seeds is the farmer-owned producer company and brand created to market traditional, organically grown, open-pollinated seed. Env Wiki's old `sahajaseeds.in` link has since been taken over by an unrelated hybrid-seed business; this entry uses the verified Sahaja Samrudha and `sahajaseeds.com` sites so the historical listing does not send users to the wrong organisation. ### Sahjeevan - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sahjeevan - **Source URL**: https://sahjeevan.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water - **Geography**: India, Gujarat - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bhuj, Gujarat - **Summary**: Empowering self-sustaining communities with grassroots leadership. - **Notes**: Sahjeevan's work spans milk and dairy value-chain interventions across cow, buffalo, camel, sheep, and goat products; community institutions and producer organisations; and Biological Management Committees with People's Biodiversity Registers. Its Communities-Institutions-Advocacy framework centres on commons governance and pastoral livelihoods. ### Sama Digital Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sama-digital-foundation - **Source URL**: https://thesama.in - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Technology, Gender, Welfare - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 2024 - **Location**: Pune, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Nonprofit repurposing donated devices and e-waste into digital skilling and coding education for underserved women and youth - **Notes**: Sama Digital Foundation is a Pune-based nonprofit working to close the digital divide by refurbishing donated laptops and e-waste devices and channelling them into digital and coding education for underserved women and youth, with a stated goal of reaching one million people by 2030. It partners with organisations such as Navgurukul and Code to Enhance to run device donation drives and digital training programmes leading toward employment. ### Samagata Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/samagata-foundation - **Source URL**: https://samagata.org - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Philanthropy, Technology, Education, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India - **Founded**: 2022 - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Funds and connects Indian projects creating public commons, institutions, community spaces, and lasting social value - **Notes**: Alongside grants and investments, Samagata connects people and organisations working on experiments it believes should exist, without requiring immediately measurable outcomes. ### Sanchaya - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sanchaya - **Source URL**: https://sanchaya.org - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Technology, Education, Media - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Builds open Kannada language technology, literary research tools, and freely accessible digital collections of books and periodicals - **Notes**: Sanchaya is a Bengaluru-based nonprofit that builds open-source digital infrastructure for the Kannada language — one of India's oldest literary traditions, with written records going back to the 9th century. Its projects span the full stack of language technology: digitisation, OCR, fonts, search, and community platforms. **Flagship projects:** - **[Vachana Sanchaya](https://vachana.sanchaya.net/)** — a digital research platform for 12th-century Vachana literature, the radical Bhakti poetry of Basavanna, Akkamahadevi, Allama Prabhu, and others. It provides full-text search, concordance, word frequency analysis, and scholarly annotations across thousands of vachanas. This is the most advanced digital humanities project in any Indian language. - **[Pustaka Sanchaya](https://pustaka.sanchaya.net/)** — a library of digitised out-of-copyright and CC-licensed Kannada books. The collection is built through community digitisation events (scan-a-thons) and partnerships with publishers and authors. - **[Kannada Fonts](https://fonts.sanchaya.net/)** — a curated collection of open-source Kannada fonts, including the Karnata F-Kittel font designed specifically for scholarly typesetting. Addresses the chronic shortage of quality Kannada typefaces. - **Author-specific portals** — dedicated search and study tools for major Kannada poets: Janna Sanchaya, Ranna Sanchaya, Sarvajna Sanchaya, Daasa Sanchaya, and the Kavirajamarga Sanchaya (the earliest available Kannada text, from ~850 CE). - **Samuha Sanchaya** — a community platform for collaborative transcription, translation, and annotation of Kannada texts. - **Hejje** — a digital mapping project tracing the geographical references in Kannada literature. All Sanchaya projects use free and open-source software and publish content under Creative Commons licences. The organisation is run by a small team of engineers, linguists, and literature scholars, and relies on grants and community contributions. ### Sangath - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sangath - **Source URL**: https://sangath.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Health, Disability, Welfare, Education - **Geography**: Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Mental health research non-profit pioneering community-based task-sharing interventions across India and low-income countries - **Notes**: Sangath is an Indian non-profit healthcare and research organization founded in 1996 in Goa. It is internationally recognized for its pioneering scholarship in global mental health, child development, and adolescent well-being. Sangath specializes in "task-sharing" models — developing and testing evidence-based psychological interventions that can be delivered by trained non-specialist community health workers rather than scarce psychiatrists. Its clinical trials on maternal depression, alcohol use disorders, and autism have shaped WHO mental health guidelines worldwide. ### Sarjapura Curries - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sarjapura-curries - **Source URL**: https://www.sarjapuracurries.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Environment - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Sarjapura, Karnataka - **Summary**: Food biodiversity, local greens, and community storytelling rooted in regional food systems. - **Notes**: Sarjapura Curries documents food biodiversity, local greens, and traditional recipes in peri-urban Karnataka. It uses food as a lens for community identity, ecology, and local knowledge systems. ### Sauramandala Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sauramandala-foundation - **Source URL**: https://www.sauramandala.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Economy - **Geography**: India, Meghalaya - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Shillong, Meghalaya - **Summary**: Social and economic change for remote and inaccessible communities through collaborative action. - **Notes**: Sauramandala Foundation runs livelihood and social development interventions in remote Meghalaya communities. Its collaborative approach reaches geographically isolated communities that mainstream development often misses. ### SayTrees - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/saytrees - **Source URL**: https://www.saytrees.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Water, Environment - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Tree plantations, forest creation, and water rejuvenation across Indian cities. - **Notes**: SayTrees builds dense Miyawaki urban forests, restores lakes, runs agroforestry programmes, and installs biogas infrastructure. Its model combines ecological restoration with volunteer and corporate participation formats that convert citizen engagement into restoration labour and stewardship. ### School of Ecological Nurturance (SEN) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/school-of-ecological-nurturance-sen - **Source URL**: https://gbsanctuary.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Education - **Geography**: India, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Periya, Kerala - **Summary**: Apprenticeship-based ecological learning emerging from Gurukula and allied landscape organisations. - **Notes**: SEN offers hands-on apprenticeships in conservation, restoration, and ecological practice, emerging from the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary and allied organisations in the Western Ghats. Its place-based pedagogy centres on learning through direct participation in landscape stewardship. ### Science Gallery Bengaluru - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/science-gallery-bengaluru - **Source URL**: https://bengaluru.sciencegallery.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Culture & heritage, Technology - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Summary**: Research-based public engagement at the intersection of sciences, engineering, art, and design — part of the global Science Gallery Network - **Notes**: Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) is a not-for-profit institution for research-based engagement targeted at young adults, working at the intersection of human, natural, and social sciences, engineering, art, and design. It runs exhibitions, fellowships, residencies, and labs. Samagata Foundation backed the Theory Lab at SGB — a 20-seater meetup space bringing together anti-disciplinary thinkers. Part of the global Science Gallery Network. ### SDG India Index - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/niti-sdg-india-index - **Source URL**: https://sdgindia.niti.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Welfare, Governance, Education, Health - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: NITI Aayog index on India’s Sustainable Development Goal progress with state-level comparisons and thematic dashboards - **Notes**: The SDG India Index is a practical benchmark for tracking state-level progress and regressions across most social and ecological SDG goals. It is especially useful for cross-state comparisons, where administrative data quality varies and advocacy teams need a common framework. The report side includes methodological notes and composite scores that can help structure proposals for municipal or district planning debates. For researchers, this is a strong entry point before moving into ministry-specific data extraction. ### SEARCH Gadchiroli - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/search-gadchiroli - **Source URL**: https://searchgadchiroli.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Health, Nutrition, Welfare, Rights - **Geography**: Maharashtra, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Community health research non-profit pioneering low-cost maternal-newborn healthcare and tribal public health models in central India - **Notes**: SEARCH (Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health) was founded in 1986 by medical doctors Abhay and Rani Bang in tribal Gadchiroli, Maharashtra. SEARCH combines community medicine, primary clinical care, and epidemiological research. SEARCH developed the groundbreaking Home-Based Newborn Care (HBNC) model, which trained village women to diagnose and treat neonatal infections and asphyxia, reducing infant mortality by over 60%. The model was adopted globally by the WHO and UNICEF, and formulates the foundation of India's national ASHA community health worker program. ### Seshat Global History Databank - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/seshat-global-history-databank - **Source URL**: https://seshatdatabank.info/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Demography, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC-BY-4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Large-scale historical database systematically coding the social, political, and institutional evolution of human societies over 5000 years - **Notes**: Seshat: Global History Databank is an international scientific research project founded in 2011 to systematically compile historical and archaeological data from hundreds of human societies across the globe spanning the past 5,000 years. The databank codes hundreds of social variables — including population size, territory, hierarchy levels, governance structures, information systems, and warfare technologies. The data is used by historians, sociologists, and evolutionary scientists to empirically test competing theories about the rise of social complexity, state collapse, and long-term institutional change. Seshat's datasets and polity definitions are published openly for academic and historical research. ### SEWA Bharat - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sewa-bharat - **Source URL**: https://sewabharat.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Labour, Gender, Economy, Welfare - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: National federation of informal women workers organizing for labour rights, social security, financial inclusion, and cooperative enterprise across India - **Notes**: SEWA Bharat is the national federation of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), a movement established in 1972 by Ela Bhatt to organize informal women workers who lack formal employment protections. SEWA Bharat supports member organisations across multiple states representing street vendors, home-based workers, waste recyclers, and agricultural labourers. The federation works across five pillars: organizing, social security (micro-insurance, maternal care, pensions), financial inclusion (women-owned cooperatives and microfinance), enterprise development, and skill training. SEWA's cooperative model is widely recognized globally as a pioneering approach to informal labour empowerment. ### Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/shakti-sustainable-energy-foundation - **Source URL**: https://shaktifoundation.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Climate, Energy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Clean energy and climate transitions that are affordable, inclusive, and scalable. - **Notes**: Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation structures work across cooling, mobility, air quality, freight, climate finance, and city action. Its catalytic philanthropy model builds coalitions, evidence, and partner capacity so major public-policy shifts become possible. It helped build the analytical base for the India Cooling Action Plan. ### Shivganga Gram Vikas - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/shivganga-gram-vikas - **Source URL**: https://shivganga.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Environment - **Geography**: India, Madhya Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Indore, Madhya Pradesh - **Summary**: Rural development in tribal areas through water conservation. - **Notes**: Shivganga builds check dams, ponds, and watershed structures for tribal area water security in Madhya Pradesh. Its community-managed water conservation model integrates traditional knowledge with modern techniques. ### Slam Out Loud - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/slam-out-loud - **Source URL**: https://slamoutloud.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Education, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India, Delhi, Maharashtra, Punjab, Bihar, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Arts education and socio-emotional learning for children from underserved communities. - **Notes**: Slam Out Loud brings structured poetry, storytelling, and visual arts curriculum to underserved schools. It uses creative expression to build confidence, voice, and emotional resilience in children, with a digital library of arts-based learning resources for educators. ### Slowform Media - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/slowform-media - **Source URL**: https://www.slowform.media/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Climate, Media - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Independent climate and environment journalism. - **Notes**: Slowform Media produces independent climate and environment journalism, covering environmental stories, climate policy, and ecological issues across India. ### Smart Cities Mission Data Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/smart-cities-mission-data-portal - **Source URL**: https://smartcities.data.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Transport, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Thousands of datasets contributed by participating Indian cities covering urban infrastructure, services, mobility, environment, and governance - **Notes**: A surprisingly obscure portal — 100 Indian cities contribute datasets on air quality, water supply, solid waste, mobility, housing, safety, and urban finance. The platform uses the same CKAN-based infrastructure as data.gov.in, meaning datasets are API-accessible. Particularly valuable for cross-city comparisons and for finding data from tier-2 cities that rarely publish structured open data. The Smart Cities Mission has a separate dashboard at smartcities.gov.in for project-level progress tracking. ### SNEHA Mumbai - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sneha-mumbai - **Source URL**: https://snehamumbai.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Health, Nutrition, Gender, Cities - **Geography**: Maharashtra, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit organisation working to improve maternal, child, and adolescent health and reduce gender-based violence in urban informal settlements - **Notes**: The Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA) is a non-profit organisation founded in 1999 by neonatologist Dr. Armida Fernandez in Mumbai. SNEHA works with vulnerable women and children living in urban informal settlements (slums). SNEHA works across four interconnected domains: maternal and newborn health, child health and nutrition (malnutrition reduction), adolescent empowerment, and the prevention of violence against women and children. It partners with municipal health systems and community volunteer networks to deliver preventive care and crisis counseling. ### Socratus - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/socratus - **Source URL**: https://socratus.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Collective wisdom through participatory methods, dialogue, and community process design. - **Notes**: Socratus uses participatory methods and dialogue to facilitate collective wisdom for community problem-solving. Its approach centres on designing community processes that bring diverse voices into decision-making. ### Software Freedom Law Center, India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/software-freedom-law-center-india - **Source URL**: https://sflc.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Rights, Technology, Law & policing, Transparency - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Legal services organisation defending digital rights, user privacy, free expression, and tracking internet shutdowns across India - **Notes**: Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in) is a donor-supported legal services organisation that works to protect civil liberties, digital rights, and free software in the digital domain. SFLC.in provides pro bono legal support to developers, civil society organizations, and citizens on issues concerning digital rights, privacy, censorship, and software licensing. The organisation maintains internetshutdowns.in, the canonical database documenting telecom and internet network suspensions ordered across Indian states. It conducts empirical research, submits policy briefs on data protection and intermediary liability, and intervenes in key constitutional challenges around online freedom of expression. ### SRS and Vital Statistics - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/srs-vital-statistics - **Source URL**: https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/home - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Demography, Health, Gender - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official birth, death, fertility, infant mortality, life expectancy and cause-of-death statistics for India - **Notes**: This Census of India catalogue brings together the Sample Registration System, the Civil Registration System and medical certification of cause-of-death publications. Use it for birth and death rates, fertility, infant and under-five mortality, maternal mortality, life tables and registered causes of death, with national and varying levels of state or rural–urban detail. These systems measure different things. SRS estimates vital rates from a sample; CRS counts registered events and depends on registration completeness; MCCD covers medically certified deaths rather than every death. Keep the system and its denominator visible when comparing states or building a time series. ### SSRDP - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/ssrdp - **Source URL**: https://ssrdp.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Benchmark sustainable development models across 14 states. - **Notes**: SSRDP (Sri Sri Rural Development Programme) creates benchmark sustainable development models across 14 states, spanning livelihoods, health, and environment. Its approach designs replicable models that can be adopted across diverse state contexts. ### Startup India (DPIIT) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/startup-india-dpiit - **Source URL**: https://www.startupindia.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Technology, Labour - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: DPIIT-recognised startups database — 100K+ entities registered with state, sector, gender, and eligibility details, published under the Startup India initiative - **Notes**: The official registry of startups recognised by DPIIT under the Startup India Action Plan. The public dashboard provides registration statistics by state, sector, and year, with filters for women-led startups and patent/trademark holders. Recognition enables startups to access tax exemptions, IPR fast-tracking, and public procurement benefits. ### State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/fao-state-of-food-security-and-nutrition - **Source URL**: https://www.fao.org/publications/fao-flagship-publications/the-state-of-food-security-and-nutrition-in-the-world/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Agriculture, Health, Nutrition, Climate - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: FAO's annual flagship on hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity trends with country-level comparisons and outlook for policy - **Notes**: The SOFI series combines model-based and survey-based assessments on undernourishment, food insecurity, food quality and diet diversity. For India, it is one of the few global references that can be directly used to benchmark hunger and malnutrition progress against other countries while tracking policy-sensitive drivers like conflict exposure, climate shocks, price pass-through and social protection design. Its value for civic actors is strongest where district-level and programme-level evidence is weak, because it gives a global standard framing for what counts as food and nutrition insecurity over time. Pair SOFI with WFP’s Global Report on Food Crises and India-specific social registries when interpreting subnational vulnerability. ### State of the World's Children - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unicef-state-of-the-worlds-children - **Source URL**: https://www.unicef.org/reports/state-of-worlds-children - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Health, Education, Nutrition, Welfare - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UNICEF periodic global review of child health, survival, education, protection and climate-linked risks - **Notes**: State of the World's Children gives child-focused evidence in a highly usable advocacy format: coverage of child mortality, learning outcomes, protection gaps and child wellbeing trajectories. For India, it helps support child-rights programmes by providing global comparators and a common language for outcome framing. It is most useful when paired with India-specific health systems and education administrative datasets, because it clearly separates symptoms (trends) from policy levers (programmes). ### Stirling PDF - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/stirling-pdf - **Source URL**: https://www.stirlingpdf.com/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL v3) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: All-in-one open-source PDF manipulation toolkit — merge, split, compress, OCR, convert, sign, and dozens more operations through a simple web interface - **Notes**: Stirling PDF is a comprehensive, open-source PDF manipulation tool that runs in the browser. It handles virtually every PDF operation a researcher or civic worker needs: merging and splitting documents, compressing large files, converting between formats (PDF to Word, Excel, images, and vice versa), adding OCR text layers to scanned documents, signing documents, removing pages, adding watermarks, and dozens more. For Indian researchers working with government documents — which are overwhelmingly PDF-based — Stirling PDF is the Swiss Army knife. It can be self-hosted (Docker) for organisations that handle sensitive documents and don't want to upload them to random web services. Free, open-source, actively maintained on GitHub with 40K+ stars. ### Survey of India Online Maps Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/survey-of-india-maps - **Source URL**: https://onlinemaps.surveyofindia.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Land, Governance, Transport, Water - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Partly open - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Official administrative boundaries, topographic maps, roads, railways, hydrology, terrain and village boundary products - **Notes**: The Survey of India portal distributes authoritative national map products, including administrative and village boundaries, topographic sheets, roads, railways, settlements, hydrology and terrain. Depending on the product, files are supplied as GIS databases or shapefiles, rasters and PDFs suitable for mapping, planning and geographic reference. Access is mixed: some boundaries and map sheets are free, while detailed products may require registration, identity verification or payment. Download conditions and permissible reuse differ by product, so do not treat the whole catalogue as openly licensed. Also keep edition dates—an official boundary file can still lag a recent administrative reorganisation. ### Sustainable Futures Collective - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/sustainable-futures-collective - **Source URL**: https://www.sustainablefutures.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Climate, Energy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Climate strategy, energy transition, and public-interest systems change for a just future. - **Notes**: Sustainable Futures Collective works on climate strategy, energy transition, and public-interest systems change. It brings a systems lens to building a just and sustainable future. ### svara-TTS - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/svara-tts - **Source URL**: https://huggingface.co/blog/kenpath/svara-tts-open-multilingual-speech-for-india - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Culture & heritage, Media - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Open licence (Apache-2.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source multilingual text-to-speech model for Indian languages, enabling natural voice synthesis across regional languages and dialects - **Notes**: svara-TTS is an open-source multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) model family developed by Kenpath Labs specifically for Indian languages and accents. It addresses the shortage of high-quality, open-weights voice synthesis models for Indic languages, supporting natural pronunciation, regional phonetic nuances, and conversational rhythm across major Indian language families. The model is released under the Apache 2.0 licence, making it usable for civic technologists, community radio initiatives, educational tools, and accessibility applications without proprietary cloud API costs. It supports local inference via GGUF, vLLM, and FastAPI pipelines, allowing organisations to run voice synthesis self-hosted and offline for privacy-sensitive deployments and rural IVR workflows. ### Svatah - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/svatah - **Source URL**: https://svatah.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Economy, Education, Gender, Welfare - **Geography**: Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit organisation promoting financial literacy, savings behaviour, and economic stability for women, youth, and marginalised communities in India - **Notes**: Svatah is a non-profit organisation based in Hyderabad dedicated to building financial literacy, informed decision-making, and long-term economic stability among marginalized communities, women self-help groups, youth, and school students. Through initiatives like Svatah Bhavishya (curriculum-integrated financial education for middle-school students), Svatah Sakhi (household budget and savings training for women micro-entrepreneurs), and the Svadhyay digital learning portal, the organisation delivers localized workshops on banking access, formal credit, digital fraud prevention, and government social security schemes. ### Swachh Bharat Mission Dashboard - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/swachh-bharat-mission-dashboard - **Source URL**: https://sbm.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Health, Cities, Welfare - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Sanitation progress across urban and rural India — toilet construction, ODF status, solid waste management, and swachhata rankings at city and district level - **Notes**: The SBM dashboard tracks urban sanitation infrastructure: individual and community toilets built, public urinals, solid waste processing plants, ODF/ODF+/ODF++/Water+ city certifications, and the annual Swachh Survekshan rankings. The rural counterpart (SBM-G) separately tracks village-level sanitation coverage and behaviour-change indicators. ### Swaraj University - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/swaraj-university - **Source URL**: https://www.swarajuniversity.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Environment, Labour - **Geography**: India, Rajasthan - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Alternative learning community where young people design education around real projects, mentors and ecological responsibility - **Notes**: Swaraj University is an alternative learning community centred on self-designed education. Participants, called khojis, build individual learning plans around real projects, peer cohorts, reflection and apprenticeships with practitioners, rather than following a standard degree curriculum or examination sequence. The programme connects personal learning with ecological responsibility, community life, livelihoods and critical examination of conventional education. It is not a degree-granting university in the conventional regulatory sense; participation involves an application process and programme commitments, which should be understood before treating it as a substitute for an accredited course. ### SwaYYam - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/swayyam - **Source URL**: https://www.swayyam.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Land - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bandipur, Karnataka - **Summary**: Permaculture and agroecology collective regenerating degraded farmland through farmer collectives, tree-planting, and food sovereignty. - **Notes**: SwaYYam is a permaculture and agroecology collective regenerating degraded farmland through farmer collectives, tree-planting, and food sovereignty approaches in the Bandipur region of Karnataka. ### SWMRT - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/swmrt - **Source URL**: https://swmrt.com/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Health, Environment - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Sustainable waste management for public health. - **Notes**: SWMRT (Solid Waste Management Round Table) runs ward-level decentralised waste processing systems in Bengaluru. Its citizen-led waste governance model combines community participation with technical solutions for public health. ### Tabula - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/tabula - **Source URL**: https://tabula.technology/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Extract tables from PDFs into CSV or Excel — the essential first step for working with Indian government data locked inside PDF reports - **Notes**: Tabula solves one of the most persistent problems in Indian data work: government data published as PDFs with embedded tables. It provides a simple visual interface — you draw boxes around the tables you want, and Tabula extracts them into clean CSV or Excel files. For researchers, journalists, and civic technologists who regularly download budget documents, statistical reports, and survey results that are PDF-only, Tabula is often the first tool in the pipeline. The underlying technology (tabula-java) can be scripted for batch processing. Free, open-source, and runs on your desktop. Complement with Camelot (Python library) for more complex table extraction needs. ### Taguette - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/taguette - **Source URL**: https://www.taguette.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Education, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (BSD-3-Clause) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Free qualitative research software for highlighting and coding documents, collaborating on analysis and exporting findings - **Notes**: Taguette supports qualitative analysis of interviews, reports, field notes and other text. Researchers import documents, highlight passages, organise them with a coding scheme and export their codes, highlights and project data for further analysis or reporting. The desktop mode keeps a project on the researcher's own computer. Teams can use the hosted service or install Taguette on their own server for collaboration. It accepts common formats including PDF, DOCX, ODT, RTF, EPUB, HTML and plain text, but it is designed for textual rather than audio or video analysis. ### Tarkam - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/tarkam - **Source URL**: https://tarkam.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Technology, Governance, Environment - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Building shared data infrastructure and capacity so civil society organisations can collaborate and tell stronger, data-driven stories together - **Notes**: Tarkam addresses a structural gap in India's civil society ecosystem: valuable data collected by grassroots organisations is mainly used for internal reporting and rarely shared or reused. Tarkam builds shared data infrastructure, strengthens organisations' data capacity, and enables collaboration so that place-based insights from community organisations can enter public and policy discourse. Rainmatter Foundation supports Tarkam as part of its belief that open systems and shared commons are key to solving complex environmental challenges. ### Tathyakosh - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/tathyakosh - **Source URL**: https://www.tathyakosh.in/ - **Kind**: Directory - **Topics**: Technology, Governance, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Catalogue of Indian data portals and datasets, filterable by domain, geography, format, access and machine readability - **Notes**: Tathyakosh indexes Indian government portals, public-sector data sources and individual datasets, then links users to the original source. Its metadata helps narrow a search by subject, geographic coverage, file format, access conditions, API availability and machine readability. ### Tech4Good Community - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/tech4good-community - **Source URL**: https://www.tech4goodcommunity.com - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Technology, Education, Environment, Philanthropy - **Geography**: India - **Summary**: Helps Indian nonprofits build practical technology capacity, open-source infrastructure, and communities for lasting social impact - **Notes**: Its current programmes span nonprofit infrastructure, conservation data, open-source adoption, and training the next generation of social-impact technologists. ### Technology for Wildlife Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/technology-for-wildlife-foundation - **Source URL**: https://tech4wildlife.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment, Technology - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Conservation impact through appropriate technology. - **Notes**: Technology for Wildlife Foundation applies appropriate technology solutions to conservation challenges — using tools like drones, GIS, camera traps, and data systems to support wildlife protection and habitat management across India. ### Tella - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/tella - **Source URL**: https://tella-app.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Rights, Technology, Law & policing - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (GPL v3) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Secure documentation app for human rights — encrypt photos, videos, and audio on mobile, with camouflage features for high-risk environments - **Notes**: Tella is a mobile documentation app built for human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society organisations working in high-risk environments. It encrypts photos, videos, and audio recordings on the device before they are stored, and can disguise itself as a calculator or weather app. Features include offline data collection, secure cloud upload, and configurable security settings. For Indian human rights organisations, activists, and researchers documenting sensitive situations — environmental violations, police conduct, displacement, labour rights abuses — Tella provides essential protection for both the data and the person collecting it. Developed by Horizontal, a nonprofit building digital security tools for civil society. Free and open-source. ### Tesseract OCR - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/tesseract-ocr - **Source URL**: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Apache-2.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source optical character recognition engine supporting over 100 languages, widely used to extract text from scanned documents and PDFs - **Notes**: Tesseract is an open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine originally developed at HP and maintained by Google and the open-source community. It uses LSTM-based neural network models to recognize text from scanned images, photos, and PDF files in more than 100 languages, including multiple Indian scripts (Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Gurmukhi). Tesseract is the foundational OCR engine powering numerous higher-level civic tech tools, including Paperless-ngx, Stirling PDF, and custom document pipelines used by investigative journalists and archival projects to digitize public records, court filings, and historical documents. It can be run from the command line or integrated programmatically via Python and C++ bindings. ### The Grove - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/the-grove - **Source URL**: https://grove.rainmatter.org/ - **Kind**: Community - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Agriculture - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Registration required - **Summary**: Rainmatter-hosted forum for afforestation, agroforestry, and climate work through practitioner discussions. - **Notes**: The Grove is a Discourse forum used by Rainmatter Foundation and practitioners to discuss agroforestry, forest restoration, and climate adaptation. It acts as a place to ask questions, share work, and connect around practice-based learning. ### The Local Food Project (Locavore) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/the-local-food-project-locavore - **Source URL**: https://thelocavore.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Media, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Mumbai, Maharashtra - **Summary**: Food-systems storytelling, local producer networks, and community-led action for regional food cultures. - **Notes**: Locavore (The Local Food Project) documents regional food cultures, connects local producers, and mobilises community-led action around food systems. It uses storytelling and producer networks to strengthen the visibility and viability of local food economies. ### The Long House Collective - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/the-long-house-collective - **Source URL**: https://www.instagram.com/thelonghousecollective/ - **Kind**: Community - **Topics**: Culture & heritage - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Summary**: Community art space in Calicut operating from a repurposed heritage go-down — hosting conversations, exhibitions, workshops, and artist residencies by the beach - **Notes**: The Long House Collective (LHC) is a community art space operating from within a historic repurposed go-down in Calicut's small but burgeoning beachside art district. Founded by indie artist and curator Sherin, the space kick-started a thriving art community through conversations, gatherings, exhibitions, and workshops. It also serves as an artist residency. Samagata Foundation backed the setup of the space in 2023. ### The Policy Edge - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/the-policy-edge - **Source URL**: https://www.policyedge.in/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Governance, Welfare, Economy, Transparency - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Independent platform publishing evidence-based policy briefs, academic working papers, and practitioner perspectives on Indian governance - **Notes**: The Policy Edge (policyedge.in) is an independent, non-partisan public policy platform that bridges academic research, frontline implementation, and public understanding in India. The platform publishes rapid policy explainers (Policy Bites), working papers authored by scholars from institutions including the IITs and IIMs, and direct field perspectives from civil servants and grassroots practitioners. It also conducts capacity-building programs, including executive courses in policy analysis, evaluation, and quantitative modelling in partnership with IIT Bombay. ### The Shola Trust - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/the-shola-trust - **Source URL**: https://thesholatrust.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Land - **Geography**: India, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Gudalur, Tamil Nadu - **Summary**: Nature conservation in the Nilgiri region, focused on shola-grassland ecosystems. - **Notes**: The Shola Trust works on conservation of the unique shola-grassland ecosystems of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, combining ecological research, community engagement, and habitat restoration. ### The Timbaktu Collective - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/the-timbaktu-collective - **Source URL**: https://timbaktu.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Environment - **Geography**: India, Andhra Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Chennekothapalli, Andhra Pradesh - **Summary**: Grassroots regeneration of drought-prone landscapes through cooperatives, organic farming, and local economies. - **Notes**: The Timbaktu Collective combines place-based institutions, producer-facing systems, and commons restoration into a long-lived rural transformation ecosystem. Its work ties dryland regeneration, livelihoods, local democracy, and ecological restoration into a single place-based development logic. ### TinkerSpace - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/tinkerspace - **Source URL**: https://www.tinkerhub.org/tinkerspace - **Kind**: Community - **Topics**: Technology, Education - **Geography**: India, Kerala - **Summary**: 24×7 community makerspace in Kochi for tinkerers, coders, and hackers — a thriving hub at the intersection of technology, art, and philosophy - **Notes**: TinkerSpace is a not-for-profit community space for technology enthusiasts, tinkerers, coders, and hackers, situated near the CUSAT university campus in Kochi. Operating 24×7 and open to all, it hosts interdisciplinary workshops and events regularly. It is the physical evolution of the TinkerHub tech community that has operated across Kerala's colleges for close to a decade. Samagata Foundation backs the running of the space. ### TradeStat - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/tradestat - **Source URL**: https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/ftspcc/ttrade_region_wise_all_countries - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Transport - **Geography**: India, Global - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official monthly merchandise imports and exports by commodity, country, region and Indian port - **Notes**: TradeStat is the Department of Commerce and DGCI&S dissemination system for India's merchandise trade. It supports queries across harmonised-system commodities, partner countries, regions, ports and time periods, with quantity and value measures useful for tracking exports, imports and trade balances. Commodity classifications and revisions change over time, and country totals can differ from partner-reported data because of valuation, timing and classification. Record the HS level, currency, financial or calendar period and whether values are provisional. The portal is for goods trade; services trade requires other official sources such as RBI. ### TRAI Telecom Performance Indicators - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/trai-performance-indicators - **Source URL**: https://www.trai.gov.in/release-publication/reports/performance-indicators-reports - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Technology, Economy, Cities - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Quarterly and annual statistics on telecom subscribers, broadband, teledensity, usage, revenue and service quality - **Notes**: TRAI's performance-indicator series gives a recurring statistical view of fixed and mobile telephony, internet and broadband, broadcasting and related services. Reports include subscriber bases, wireless and wireline shares, rural–urban and service-area teledensity, usage, revenue and market structure; separate monitoring reports cover provider performance against quality-of-service norms. Subscriber counts can include inactive or multiple SIMs and should not be read as unique people. Definitions, reporting providers and service-area boundaries change over time, while national aggregates can hide large local gaps. For trend work, retain the report quarter and consult corrigenda rather than scraping a single headline table. ### Transform Rural India Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/transform-rural-india-foundation - **Source URL**: https://trif.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Health - **Geography**: India, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Community-first rural development spanning health, nutrition, education, farm prosperity, and local governance across eight states. - **Notes**: Transform Rural India Foundation takes a community-first approach to rural development across health, nutrition, education, farm prosperity, and local governance. Its multi-state presence and integrated programme design make it a significant systems-change actor in rural India. ### TREND by Youth Ki Awaaz - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/trend-youth-ki-awaaz - **Source URL**: https://trend.youthkiawaaz.com - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Culture & heritage, Media, Demography, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Partly open - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Research unit polling, discourse analysis, and a public archive of questions tracking young India's opinions and cultural shifts - **Notes**: TREND is a research and evidence-building unit at Youth Ki Awaaz that documents young India's opinions and cultural shifts through participatory methods. It runs three infrastructures: Yoot, a WhatsApp polling community of 200,000+ respondents; CHORUS, discourse analysis across 120,000+ citizen articles spanning 18 years; and Shape of Questions, a public archive of 3,000+ questions and responses. The archive and monthly digests are openly browsable; researchers can request the fuller underlying datasets. Coverage spans health, education, employment, relationships, finances, urban life, climate, safety, elections, data protection, and AI, with an emphasis on Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. ### Trust for Environmental Education - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/trust-for-environmental-education - **Source URL**: http://www.treeindia.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Education - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu - **Summary**: Experiential learning and environmental education for children and communities. - **Notes**: Trust for Environmental Education runs experiential environmental learning programmes for children and communities, building ecological awareness through hands-on engagement with natural systems. ### Udhyam Learning - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/udhyam-learning - **Source URL**: https://udhyam.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Education, Labour - **Geography**: India, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Entrepreneurial mindset in young learners through large-scale school and nano-entrepreneurship programmes. - **Notes**: Udhyam runs two large programmes: Udhyam Shiksha (entrepreneurial mindset curriculum for government school students) and Udhyam Vyapaar (nano-entrepreneurship support). Its Bet On Yourself philosophy centres on building grit, self-awareness, and practical problem-solving. The Istri Project helped ironing vendors switch from coal to LPG. ### Udhyam Learning Foundation - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/udhyam-learning-foundation - **Source URL**: https://udhyam.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Education, Labour, Welfare, Economy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Founded**: 2017 - **Summary**: Builds entrepreneurial skills among government-school students and supports nano-entrepreneurs in improving their livelihoods - **Notes**: Udhyam Learning Foundation works on entrepreneurship as a form of agency and livelihood rather than only startup creation. Udhyam Shiksha partners with government schools and vocational institutions to teach entrepreneurial mindsets through practical projects; Udhyam Vyapaar works with street vendors, home-based businesses and other nano-entrepreneurs on skills, tools, markets and business resilience. The organisation publishes annual reports, programme research, FCRA material and audited financial statements, making those better sources for dated scale or income claims than the changing homepage counters. Participation and outcomes are programme-specific: a student reached through a state curriculum and a vendor receiving intensive support should not be counted as equivalent forms of engagement. ### UDISE+ - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/udise-plus - **Source URL**: https://udiseplus.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Education - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: School-level education statistics for every recognised school in India — enrolment, teachers, facilities and dropout - **Notes**: Reported by schools themselves, which is both why it has the coverage it does and why the numbers need reading with care. ### Udyam MSME Registration - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/udyam-msme-registration - **Source URL**: https://udyamregistration.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Labour, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official MSME registration portal with public statistics on registered enterprises by state, sector, social category, gender, and enterprise size - **Notes**: The post-2020 replacement for the old Udyog Aadhaar classification — now the canonical reference for MSME statistics. The public dashboard reports cumulative and daily registrations broken down by state, district, industry, gender, social category (SC/ST/OBC), and enterprise size (micro/small/medium). Government schemes and RBI lending data depend on Udyam for MSME classification. ### uMap - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/umap - **Source URL**: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Cities, Technology, Land - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (WTFPL) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Create custom interactive maps with OpenStreetMap layers in minutes — no coding, just drop data, style, and embed anywhere - **Notes**: uMap lets you create beautiful, interactive maps on top of OpenStreetMap in minutes, with zero technical knowledge. Import data from GeoJSON, CSV, KML, or GPX files; style points, lines, and polygons with custom colours and icons; add pop-ups with descriptions and photos; choose from dozens of background map styles; and embed the result in any website with a simple iframe. For Indian civic organisations, uMap is the fastest way to turn a spreadsheet of locations (polling stations, health facilities, water sources, project sites) into a public-facing interactive map. Hosted instances are free and maintained by the OpenStreetMap France community. The software itself is open-source and can be self-hosted. ### UN Comtrade - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/un-comtrade - **Source URL**: https://comtradeplus.un.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Reported merchandise trade flows between countries by commodity code — around 200 countries and over 99% of world trade, going back decades - **Notes**: Bilateral flows are double-reported, so exporter and importer figures for the same trade rarely match — the gap is itself informative. ### UN SDG Data Portal - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/un-sdg-data - **Source URL**: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Governance, Welfare, Climate - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official country-level series for all Sustainable Development Goal indicators, with metadata on how each is defined - **Notes**: The metadata is the useful part — each indicator states its definition and custodian agency, which is how you find out whether two countries' figures are actually comparable. ### UN World Population Prospects - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/un-world-population-prospects - **Source URL**: https://population.un.org/wpp/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Demography, Cities, Health - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The UN's official population estimates and projections for every country — age structures, fertility, mortality, migration, and urbanisation through 2100 - **Notes**: The World Population Prospects is the UN's biennial population reference. The 2024 revision provides estimates (1950-2023) and projections (2024-2100) for 237 countries, including India. Data includes total population, age and sex structure, fertility rates, life expectancy, international migration, and urban/rural population shares. For India, the 2023 estimate of 1.43 billion people surpassing China made global headlines — but WPP data supports far more granular questions about India's demographic dividend, ageing curve, urbanisation trajectory, and state-level population projections. ### UNCTADstat - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unctadstat - **Source URL**: https://unctadstat.unctad.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Transport - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UNCTAD's data centre — trade, foreign direct investment, maritime transport, commodities, creative economy, and development indicators for 200+ economies - **Notes**: UNCTADstat is the statistical arm of the UN Conference on Trade and Development. It covers merchandise and services trade, FDI flows and stocks, maritime transport (fleet, port calls, container traffic), commodity prices, and the creative economy. For India, it provides FDI data complementing RBI's, trade data that can be cross-checked against DGFT and Comtrade, and shipping data relevant to understanding India's port sector. The API and bulk download options make it easy to integrate into dashboards. ### UNdata - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/un-data - **Source URL**: https://data.un.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Demography, Economy, Energy - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Single search across the UN system's statistical databases, from population and trade to energy and national accounts - **Notes**: UNdata is the UN system's unified statistical portal, providing a single search interface across 35 UN databases — from population and national accounts to trade and energy. For India researchers, it aggregates country-level data from WHO, UNESCO, ILO, FAO, UNIDO, World Bank, IMF, and the UN Statistics Division. The key value is convenience: instead of visiting a dozen agency-specific portals, you can get demography, economy, health, education, and environment data for India from a single query. Data is downloadable in multiple formats. Particularly useful for quick cross-country comparisons and for finding data from smaller UN agencies that are harder to discover individually. ### UNDP Human Development Reports - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/undp-hdr - **Source URL**: https://hdr.undp.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Welfare, Health, Education - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The Human Development Index and its components, plus inequality, gender and multidimensional poverty indices by country - **Notes**: The UNDP Human Development Reports provide the Human Development Index and its components — life expectancy, education (mean and expected years of schooling), and GNI per capita — for every country from 1990 onwards. Beyond the headline HDI, the data portal includes the Inequality-adjusted HDI, Gender Development Index, Gender Inequality Index, and Multidimensional Poverty Index. For India researchers, the key value is the long time series: you can track India's HDI trajectory against peers (Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Brazil) over three decades, or examine subnational HDI estimates published for Indian states. The data is freely downloadable and well-documented, making it a standard reference for any discussion of India's development progress. ### UNDRR Global Assessment Report - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/undrr-global-assessment-report - **Source URL**: https://www.undrr.org/gar - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Disasters, Climate, Governance, Cities - **Geography**: Global, Asia, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UNISDR/UNDRR flagship assessment of global disaster risk patterns, prevention progress and resilience outcomes - **Notes**: The Global Assessment Report tracks disaster risk trends and prevention policy with a practical focus on resilience over reaction. For civic and research teams in India, it helps situate recurring flood, heat and cyclone events inside a global risk-management framework rather than treating each event as an isolated emergency. Use it with disaster registries, flood maps and social protection data when building district-level preparedness briefs. ### UNEP Adaptation Gap Report - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unep-adaptation-gap-report - **Source URL**: https://www.unep.org/resources/adaptation-gap-report-2024 - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UNEP's annual assessment of global adaptation financing needs, risk preparedness and climate resilience progress - **Notes**: The Adaptation Gap Report is key for climate resilience work because it translates climate stress into quantified adaptation finance and policy capacity needs. For India-focused policy work, it helps justify adaptation claims in budget and development discussions and can be used to benchmark the gap between vulnerability and funded response. Organisations using climate finance or livelihood adaptation data often use this as a macro framing layer before going into local risk maps and state-level climate indicators. ### UNEP Emissions Gap Report - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unep-emissions-gap-report - **Source URL**: https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2023 - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Climate, Energy, Environment - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UNEP flagship analysis of current and projected emissions versus climate targets and pathway gaps - **Notes**: The Emissions Gap Report gives a global comparison of where mitigation action is falling short of temperature goals. For India, this is useful when discussing energy transitions, industrial policy and adaptation-versus-mitigation tradeoffs in development plans. The report is often used in policy discussions to support stronger local climate planning and to justify low-carbon interventions with comparable global evidence. ### UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unesco-global-education-monitoring-report - **Source URL**: https://www.unesco.org/gem-report/en/publications - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Education, Culture & heritage, Public finance, Demography - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UNESCO's flagship annual report on global education access, learning quality and financing for SDG 4 - **Notes**: The GEM report is a benchmark for education monitoring because it combines systems-level analysis, financing patterns and learning outcomes over time. In India-specific work, it is valuable for framing long-term education outcomes and identifying evidence areas where state-level performance diverges from national averages. It is also useful for organisations focused on skills, equity, and school retention because it links learning quality to broader social inclusion outcomes. ### UNESCO Institute for Statistics - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unesco-uis - **Source URL**: https://uis.unesco.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Education, Public finance, Gender - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The global source for education statistics — enrolment, completion, literacy and education spending, by country - **Notes**: The UNESCO Institute for Statistics is the official global source for education statistics. For India, it provides comparable data on school enrolment rates (primary, secondary, tertiary), completion rates, literacy, education expenditure as a share of GDP, pupil-teacher ratios, and gender parity indices. The key advantage over India's own education statistics (UDISE+, AISHE) is cross-country comparability: UIS data applies consistent definitions across 200+ countries, so you can reliably compare India's education indicators with other countries. The database also covers science, technology, innovation, and culture statistics. Free API and bulk download access. ### UNHCR Global Trends - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unhcr-global-trends - **Source URL**: https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/117061 - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Migration, Governance, Welfare - **Geography**: Global, Asia - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UNHCR annual statistics on refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and stateless populations - **Notes**: Global Trends is the baseline global briefing on displacement for advocacy, humanitarian planning and social protection design. It separates asylum, refugee and internally displaced populations and helps researchers track pressure on host countries and social systems, including neighbouring Indian contexts. The publication is particularly useful when linking migration policy work with city-level service planning and food-security or shelter assessments. ### UNHCR Refugee Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unhcr-refugee-data - **Source URL**: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Migration, Rights, Welfare - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UNHCR statistics on forcibly displaced populations — refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced, and stateless people, by country of origin and asylum - **Notes**: UNHCR's Refugee Data Finder provides official statistics on the world's forcibly displaced people. For India, it covers the ~250,000 refugees and asylum-seekers registered with UNHCR India (primarily from Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka), as well as Indians seeking asylum abroad. The data includes demographics (age, sex), location, and legal status. The API provides programmatic access to the full dataset. An essential complement to India's Census migration data, which only captures internal and voluntary international migration — not forced displacement. ### UNICEF Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/unicef-data - **Source URL**: https://data.unicef.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Health, Nutrition, Education - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Statistics on children and women — child mortality, nutrition, education, protection, and water and sanitation, by country - **Notes**: UNICEF Data is the organisation's statistical portal, providing indicators on children and women across 190+ countries. For India, the most important datasets cover child mortality (under-5, infant, neonatal), maternal health, nutrition (stunting, wasting, anaemia), education (out-of-school children), child marriage, birth registration, and water/sanitation access. UNICEF's data draws from household surveys (DHS/MICS), UN agencies, and government statistics, with a strong emphasis on data quality and methodological transparency. The data is freely downloadable and accessible through an API. The India country profile aggregates the most-requested indicators in one place. ### Union Budget of India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/union-budget - **Source URL**: https://indiabudget.gov.in/ - **Kind**: Archive - **Topics**: Public finance, Economy, Governance - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official Union government receipts, expenditure, fiscal indicators, ministry allocations and scheme outlays - **Notes**: The official Union Budget site publishes the Budget at a Glance, receipts and expenditure statements, demands for grants, the Finance Bill, fiscal-policy statements and ministry or scheme allocations. Its archive is the primary place to retrieve the documents as presented to Parliament, with spreadsheet versions available for many current tables. Budget estimates, revised estimates and actual expenditure are different measures and should not be mixed. The site also warns that its system-generated Excel files are provided for convenience and the signed or published PDF is authoritative if values conflict. For cleaned historical series, compare this source with Open Budgets India and RBI DBIE. ### UPAG - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/upag - **Source URL**: https://upag.gov.in - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Agriculture, Economy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics — crop area, production, yield and price data brought into one place - **Notes**: UPAG (Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics) is the government's attempt to bring India's fragmented agricultural data into one place. It integrates crop area, production, and yield statistics from the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, mandi price data from AGMARKNET, and other agricultural datasets into a unified platform. For researchers, UPAG addresses a longstanding frustration: agricultural data in India is scattered across multiple portals with inconsistent formats and identifiers. UPAG provides a single query interface and consistent data schema across commodities, states, and time periods. The portal is part of the broader push toward a unified agricultural data ecosystem. ### Uttarayan - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/uttarayan - **Source URL**: https://uttarayanwildlife.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment - **Geography**: India, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Kolkata, West Bengal - **Summary**: Ecological restoration and wildlife corridors in South Bengal and the eastern Himalayas. - **Notes**: Uttarayan works on ecological restoration and wildlife corridor connectivity in South Bengal and the eastern Himalayan region, combining habitat restoration with community engagement for long-term conservation outcomes. ### Uwazi - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/uwazi - **Source URL**: https://uwazi.io/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Rights, Law & policing, Transparency, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (MIT) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source evidence database for organising, connecting, analysing and publishing human-rights documents and records - **Notes**: Uwazi is a flexible documentation database developed by HURIDOCS for human rights organisations. Teams can define record templates, upload evidence, connect people, events and documents, search across collections, map records and publish selected material through multilingual public pages. Granular users, groups and permissions allow one installation to support private documentation alongside public collections. The software can be self-hosted without a licence fee; HURIDOCS also offers paid managed hosting, implementation and information-management support. ### Vaagdhara - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/vaagdhara - **Source URL**: https://vaagdhara.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Elections - **Geography**: India, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Banswara, Rajasthan - **Summary**: Farming sovereignty, child protection, and democracy in tribal regions. - **Notes**: Vaagdhara works on farming sovereignty, child protection, and grassroots democracy in tribal regions of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat. Its approach links agricultural autonomy with broader democratic participation and child rights. ### VAHAN Public Dashboard - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/vahan-dashboard - **Source URL**: https://analytics.parivahan.gov.in/analytics - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Transport, Cities, Climate - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Vehicle registrations by class, fuel, maker, model, state and registering office across India's VAHAN system - **Notes**: VAHAN aggregates vehicle-registration transactions from transport offices and lets users break registrations down by vehicle class, fuel, maker, model, state, office and time period. It is particularly useful for studying electric-vehicle adoption, motorisation, commercial fleets and changes in the composition of new registrations. Registrations are not the same as vehicles currently on the road, sales or vehicle kilometres travelled. Administrative onboarding and backfilled records can also affect trends. The long-running VAHAN4 dashboard is scheduled to be discontinued after 15 August 2026; this entry points to its new public analytics home and keeps the legacy link for continuity. ### Vanastree - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/vanastree - **Source URL**: https://vanastree.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Gender, Environment, Welfare - **Geography**: India, Karnataka - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Women-run Western Ghats collective conserving traditional seeds, forest-garden biodiversity and small-scale food systems - **Notes**: Vanastree is a women-farmers' seed-saving collective in Karnataka's Malnad region. It conserves traditional seeds and tubers from the Western Ghats' forest-garden landscapes while supporting member livelihoods, local food systems and recognition of women's agricultural knowledge. Its work combines seed production and exchange with training, internships, community events and experiential education rooted in agroecology. The official site was recently indexed and describes continuing activity, but its domain did not resolve consistently during verification; the entry is marked dormant until the link stabilises rather than silently substituting a social-media profile. ### Veditum India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/veditum-india - **Source URL**: https://veditum.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment, Water - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Kolkata, West Bengal - **Summary**: River ecosystems, freshwater resources, and biodiversity documentation through walking expeditions. - **Notes**: Veditum's flagship Moving Upstream series walks along rivers to build public records, documentaries, data archives, and field-based evidence. Other artefacts include India Sand Watch, the Moving Upstream Fellowship, and the Life along River Ken colouring series. It works at the intersection of environment, culture, society, and media. ### Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/vidhi-centre-for-legal-policy - **Source URL**: https://vidhilegalpolicy.in - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Governance, Law & policing - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Independent legal think tank that drafts and critiques Indian legislation, and publishes the reasoning behind it - **Notes**: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy is an independent think-tank that does legal research to improve governance in India. Its work spans judicial reforms, regulatory design, municipal law, environmental law, financial regulation, and public health law. For researchers and civic technologists, Vidhi's most important public artefacts are practical legal tools: the SARAL Manual for plain-language legislative drafting, the End-of-Life Care Toolkit with model legal documents, and the SARAL platform for simplifying legal language. Vidhi also publishes detailed legal analyses of proposed legislation, making it a key resource for understanding how laws are actually designed and implemented. It has offices in Delhi and Bengaluru. ### VoxDev - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/voxdev - **Source URL**: https://www.voxdev.org/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Education, Labour - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Home of development economics, publishing expert-reviewed research summaries that translate papers into policy takeaways. - **Notes**: VoxDev curates reviewed research across development economics through articles, podcast episodes, and VoxDevLits. It is a practical reading layer for people turning evidence into public-policy discussion. ### WASSAN - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/wassan - **Source URL**: https://wassan.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Agriculture, Labour, Welfare, Environment - **Geography**: India, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Hyderabad, Telangana - **Summary**: Ecological security for rainfed areas and poorer communities. - **Notes**: WASSAN anchors the Odisha Millet Mission as programme secretariat, serves as national hub for the Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture Network, and anchors the National Coalition on Natural Farming. Its Practice-Research-Policy approach links rainfed landscapes to public systems. ### Waste Warriors - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/waste-warriors - **Source URL**: https://wastewarriors.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment - **Geography**: India, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Goa - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Dehradun, Uttarakhand - **Summary**: Waste management in the Indian Himalayan Region. - **Notes**: Waste Warriors runs a structured Zero Waste Program helping governments build collection systems, processing infrastructure, and MRFs; Aviral (river-plastic initiative in the Ganga corridor); Create to Inspire (school education programme); and Dignified Livelihoods through SHGs and upcycling. It complements operations with community activation and an advocacy wing for the eco-sensitive Himalayan region. ### Watershed Organisation Trust - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/wotr - **Source URL**: https://wotr.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Water, Agriculture, Climate, Environment - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Non-profit research and development organisation pioneering participatory watershed management, climate adaptation, and water budgeting in rural India - **Notes**: The Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) is a non-profit organization established in 1993 in Pune, Maharashtra. WOTR develops ecosystem-based adaptation strategies for drought-prone and rainfed agricultural communities across multiple Indian states. Through its applied research arm, the WOTR Centre for Resilience Studies (W-CReS), the organisation designs participatory water budgeting methods, farm-level agro-meteorological advisory systems, and watershed restoration interventions that rebuild degraded soils and protect rural household livelihoods against climate shocks. ### WELL Labs - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/well-labs - **Source URL**: https://welllabs.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Water - **Geography**: India, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Interdisciplinary knowledge and applied research for water, environment, and social systems. - **Notes**: WELL Labs generates interdisciplinary knowledge and applied research for water, environment, and social systems. Its work bridges science, communities, and policy for evidence-based environmental decision-making. ### Western Ghats ESA Atlas - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/western-ghats-esa - **Source URL**: https://nikunjfriends25-droid.github.io/western-ghats-esa/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Environment, Land, Climate, Governance - **Geography**: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC-BY-4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Interactive atlas and open data mapping 4,331 village polygons across 6 states for the Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area notification - **Notes**: The Western Ghats ESA Atlas is an open-access geospatial data initiative that reconstructs spatial boundaries for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) draft notification S.O. 3060(E) of 31 July 2024. While the official gazette lists 4,402 villages across six states without geographic boundaries, this project matches 4,331 villages (98.4%) to their all-India 2011 Census polygons. Covering ecologically fragile contiguous landscapes across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, the atlas provides interactive vector maps, per-state downloads in GeoJSON, Shapefile, KML, CSV, and full-resolution GeoPackages, alongside a static REST API for developers, conservationists, and public policy researchers. ### Wetlands International - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/wetlands-international - **Source URL**: https://south-asia.wetlands.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Environment, Land - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: New Delhi, Delhi - **Summary**: Conservation and management of wetlands in South Asia. - **Notes**: Wetlands International South Asia coordinates the Asian Waterbird Census, publishes wetland management planning manuals, and developed the WIAMS framework (Inventory, Assessment and Monitoring framework for Indian Wetlands). Its wise-use framework centres the Ramsar concept as a guiding philosophy for wetland conservation and livelihood compatibility. ### Whatomate - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/whatomate - **Source URL**: https://whatomate.io/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL-3.0-only) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source, self-hosted WhatsApp communication platform with visual node-based IVR, call recording, and automated messaging workflows - **Notes**: Whatomate is an open-source, self-hostable communication platform built on the WhatsApp Business Cloud API. Developed in Go and Vue.js by Shridar Patil, it provides inbound and outbound WhatsApp voice calling, a drag-and-drop node-based interactive voice response (IVR) flow builder, call recordings stored directly to S3-compatible object storage, and messaging automation. For non-profits, community helplines, civic organisations, and public campaigns operating in WhatsApp-first environments like India, Whatomate offers an affordable, self-hosted alternative to proprietary telecom and IVR services. It allows teams to build automated voice response trees, capture audio grievances, and coordinate community engagement without per-agent licensing fees. ### WHO Global Health Observatory - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/who-gho - **Source URL**: https://www.who.int/data/gho - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Health, Nutrition, Demography - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: WHO's health statistics repository — mortality, disease burden, health systems and risk factors by country - **Notes**: The WHO Global Health Observatory is the World Health Organization's statistical portal, providing over 1,000 health indicators for 194 member states. For India, the most useful datasets cover mortality (life expectancy, cause-of-death, maternal and child mortality), disease burden (TB, malaria, HIV, NCDs), health systems (health workforce, hospital beds, health expenditure), risk factors (tobacco, alcohol, obesity), and environmental health (air pollution, water/sanitation). The data is free, well-documented, and accessible through an API. The GHO's strength is its cross-country comparability — every indicator uses the same definitions and methodology, making India comparable with any other country in the world. ### WHO World Health Statistics - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/who-world-health-statistics - **Source URL**: https://www.who.int/data/gho/publications/world-health-statistics - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Health, Demography, Welfare - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: WHO official global repository of health system indicators, risk factors, mortality and service access indicators - **Notes**: World Health Statistics is the WHO’s consolidated annual release on global health indicators, including mortality, systems strength, risk factors and health outcomes. For India, it is useful both as a cross-country comparator and as a secondary validation layer for programme claims. The publication is especially useful for NGOs that need a stable source for indicators used in policy papers and public health monitoring templates. ### Wildlife Conservation Society India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/wildlife-conservation-society-india - **Source URL**: https://india.wcs.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Land - **Geography**: India, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Nagaland - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Conservation science, communities, and biodiversity protection across key landscapes. - **Notes**: WCS-India anchors the Western Ghats landscape programme, Counter Wildlife Trafficking training modules, the Dhole conservation roadmap, and rights-and-communities work in the Central Western Ghats. It turns field science into landscape programmes, training modules, outreach resources, and species-focused conservation roadmaps. ### WMO State of Global Climate - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/wmo-state-of-global-climate - **Source URL**: https://www.wmo.int/publications/state-of-global-climate - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Disasters - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: WMO's annual synthesis of global climate observations, extremes and atmospheric trend indicators - **Notes**: The State of Global Climate publication series is widely used for climate baselines and extreme weather context in policy and budget discussions. For India teams, it is important for climate attribution in heat stress, rainfall variability and agriculture planning debates. The publication is not India-only but provides global framing and methodology that helps interpret local weather and climate anomaly datasets used in adaptation planning. ### Women, Business and the Law - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-women-business-and-law - **Source URL**: https://wbl.worldbank.org/en/wbl - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Gender, Labour, Economy, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual World Bank legal benchmark on gender-relevant labour laws, property rights and business constraints - **Notes**: Women, Business and the Law compares legal and regulatory differences that affect women’s participation in the economy across 190 economies. For India-focused research, it complements labour and welfare sources by showing how legal frameworks shape access to work, asset ownership and entrepreneurship. The publication is strong for advocacy documents because it gives a global baseline for legal gaps and a clear set of indicators that policymakers can act on. ### Works in Progress Magazine - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/works-in-progress-magazine - **Source URL**: https://worksinprogress.co/ - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Governance, Culture & heritage - **Geography**: Global - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: A magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world, focused on practical essays across economics, policy, and culture. - **Notes**: Works in Progress publishes long-form essays and research-informed commentary on policy, institutions, and social change. It is useful as a reading surface for people tracking cross-domain ideas in public-interest debates. ### World Bank Atlas of Global Development - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-atlas - **Source URL**: https://data360.worldbank.org/en/atlas/ - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Economy, Demography, Climate, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The World Bank's data storytelling platform — curated visualisations tracking progress on people, prosperity, planet, infrastructure, and digital globally - **Notes**: The Atlas of Global Development is the World Bank's flagship data storytelling publication, now in an interactive digital format on the Data360 platform. The 2026 edition introduces a new framework to track development over the past 75 years, focusing on the pace of progress — which countries are moving fastest, and which are losing ground — across five themes: people (demographics, health, gender), prosperity (poverty, growth, trade), planet (climate, water, biodiversity), infrastructure (energy, transport), and digital transformation. For India researchers, the Atlas provides clean, curated visualisations of India's trajectory alongside peer countries, with data drawn from the World Development Indicators and other World Bank sources. All charts and underlying data are freely accessible and downloadable. A more accessible complement to the full World Bank Open Data portal. ### World Bank Enterprise Surveys - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-enterprise-surveys - **Source URL**: https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Labour, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Firm-level survey data from 150+ countries on constraints, infrastructure, corruption, finance, labour, trade, and productivity — India data from 2014 and 2022 - **Notes**: Enterprise Surveys collect firm-level data on a wide range of topics: access to finance, infrastructure quality, corruption experience, competition, workforce skills, regulatory burden, trade, innovation, and firm performance. India is surveyed regularly (2014, 2022) with samples of 9,000+ firms covering manufacturing and services. The microdata is freely downloadable after registration. Particularly useful for comparing India's business environment with other countries at similar income levels, or for studying how firms of different sizes and sectors experience constraints differently. ### World Bank Global Economic Prospects - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-global-economic-prospects - **Source URL**: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/global-economic-prospects - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Climate - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: World Bank global and developing-economy outlook on growth, inflation, debt and climate-sensitive development risks - **Notes**: Global Economic Prospects is the World Bank’s benchmark for macro scenario planning in emerging economies, with scenario-based forecasts and risk commentary for climate, trade and debt trajectories. For India, it is useful when comparing domestic growth assumptions against world markets, commodity risk and capital flow sensitivity. In advocacy, it often helps explain why climate-related shocks and financing conditions can quickly alter poverty and service-delivery outcomes if domestic buffers are weak. ### World Bank Group Blogs - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-blogs - **Source URL**: https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/blogs - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Governance, Climate, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Official World Bank Group blog network covering poverty, climate, infrastructure, finance and development practice updates - **Notes**: The World Bank Group Blogs are useful when you need short-form analysis tied to official World Bank priorities. Posts cover global development, climate policy, infrastructure, governance and country-level updates, often with links to datasets and operational programs. For India work, this is a practical signal source during rapid policy shifts, when you need context on financing, social policy and institutional change before going into longer flagship report cycles. ### World Bank India Development Update - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-india-development-update - **Source URL**: https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/india/brief/india-development-update-knowledge-products - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Governance, Welfare, Education - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Periodic World Bank note on India’s latest development outcomes, sector reforms and state of policy execution - **Notes**: India Development Update is a frequent touchpoint for researchers and practitioners who need concise summaries of what India is doing right now rather than long statistical tables. It is strongest when used as an executive briefing companion to state or municipal data and sectoral APIs. For civic organisations, the update helps frame evidence-based arguments around lagging outcomes, implementation bottlenecks, and cross-sector links between finance, social indicators and climate adaptation. ### World Bank Microdata Library - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-microdata-library - **Source URL**: https://microdata.worldbank.org/ - **Kind**: Directory - **Topics**: Economy, Demography, Health, Labour - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Thousands of survey microdatasets — household, business, and administrative surveys from the World Bank and partner organisations, many with India content - **Notes**: The Microdata Library catalogues thousands of surveys from the World Bank, national statistical offices, and international organisations. For India, it contains NFHS rounds, Enterprise Surveys, Global Findex data, and various impact evaluations and living standards surveys. The key value proposition: many of these datasets are available as anonymised microdata for researchers who register. This is where you find the raw survey responses, not just the published tables. The API provides metadata; actual microdata access requires registration and sometimes additional approval from the data owner. ### World Bank Open Data - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-open-data - **Source URL**: https://data.worldbank.org - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Economy, Demography, Health - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Development indicators for every country back to 1960 — economy, poverty, health, education and infrastructure, with a documented open API - **Notes**: The default starting point for cross-country comparison, and openly licensed — CC BY 4.0 for most series, which is rarer among international agencies than you would expect. ### World Development Report - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-bank-wdr - **Source URL**: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Governance, Education, Health - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Annual World Bank flagship with a theme-based deep dive on growth, institutions, infrastructure and human welfare - **Notes**: The World Development Report is one of the most cited annual development publications and remains a strong source for conceptual framing. For India-focused work, its theme-by-theme analysis helps anchor local findings to a global governance and development conversation, especially in education, institutions and climate resilience chapters. It is particularly useful for policy proposals where you need a global benchmark narrative rather than only a country-level time-series. ### World Development Report - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-development-report - **Source URL**: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr/wdr-archive - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Governance, Climate, Health - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: The World Bank's flagship annual publication since 1978 — each edition examines a specific aspect of development with data, analysis, and policy recommendations - **Notes**: The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank's most influential publication — an annual deep-dive into a specific development challenge, combining original research, cross-country data analysis, and policy recommendations. Recent editions have covered climate and development (2023), data for better lives (2021), the changing nature of work (2019), and governance and the law (2017). The archive going back to 1978 is freely available, making the WDR one of the longest-running continuous series of development analysis. For India researchers, the WDR provides global context and comparative frameworks for understanding India's development challenges — and many editions include India-specific case studies and data. Each report is available as a free PDF, and the underlying data is often published separately. ### World Inequality Lab - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-inequality-lab - **Source URL**: https://inequalitylab.world/en/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Economy, Public finance, Climate, Gender - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Paris, Ile-de-France - **Summary**: Global research centre producing evidence, datasets and tools on income, wealth, political and environmental inequality - **Notes**: Based at the Paris School of Economics, the World Inequality Lab studies inequality within and between countries and develops public tools for using that research. It hosts and maintains the World Inequality Database, publishes reports and methodological handbooks, and runs projects on income, wealth, gender, political, tax and environmental inequality. WID includes downloadable country series for India as well as cross-country comparisons. ### World Investment Report - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/world-investment-report - **Source URL**: https://unctad.org/topic/investment/world-investment-report - **Kind**: Publication - **Topics**: Economy, Governance - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: UNCTAD's flagship annual report on foreign direct investment — tracks global FDI trends, policy developments, and sustainable investment since 1991 - **Notes**: The World Investment Report (WIR) is UNCTAD's flagship annual publication, the authoritative source on global foreign direct investment (FDI) trends. Each edition provides comprehensive data on FDI flows and stocks by country, region, and sector; analysis of investment policy developments; and a thematic deep-dive (recent themes include investment in sustainable energy, digital economy, and global value chains). For India, the WIR provides the definitive international perspective on India's FDI performance — tracking inflows, outflows, policy reforms, and India's position in global investment rankings. The report is free to download as a PDF, and the underlying FDI statistics are available through UNCTADstat. The archive goes back to 1991, providing over three decades of comparable investment data. ### WorldClim - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/worldclim - **Source URL**: https://worldclim.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Climate, Environment, Agriculture - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Global gridded climate data — monthly temperature, precipitation, and 19 bioclimatic variables for past, present, and future conditions - **Notes**: WorldClim provides high-resolution (1 km²) monthly climate surfaces — min/mean/max temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed, water vapour pressure — plus 19 derived bioclimatic variables that capture seasonality, extremes, and growing conditions. Also publishes downscaled CMIP6 future climate projections. The standard input for species distribution models, crop suitability studies, and conservation planning. Version 2.1 covers 1970-2000 normals. ### WorldPop - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/worldpop - **Source URL**: https://www.worldpop.org/ - **Kind**: Data source - **Topics**: Demography, Health, Cities - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (CC BY 4.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: High-resolution gridded population maps at 100 m — where people live, updated yearly, essential for accessibility, health, and infrastructure research - **Notes**: WorldPop produces 100 m resolution gridded population estimates for every country, including India. Unlike census data (which gives you district-level totals), WorldPop maps where people actually live within those districts — essential for calculating how many people live within 5 km of a health facility, in a flood zone, or beyond a road network. For India, the constrained and unconstrained datasets use different methods for allocating population to grid cells. The WorldPop Open Population Repository also hosts gridded age/sex structures, births, pregnancies, and poverty maps. ### WRI India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/wri-india - **Source URL**: https://wri-india.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Cities, Governance, Water, Climate - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka - **Summary**: Urban planning, climate resilience, nature-based solutions, and urban water. - **Notes**: WRI India runs The Hub (a free-access portal for urban development resources), the Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge (child-friendly public space), and Connect Karo (annual knowledge convening). Its programmes span urban water, climate resilience, transport, and nature-based solutions. ### XKDR Forum - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/xkdr-forum - **Source URL**: https://xkdr.org/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Governance, Economy, Public finance, Law & policing - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Open licence - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Interdisciplinary research group applying economics, law, public administration, and statistics to Indian public policy problems - **Notes**: XKDR Forum (Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Data Research) is a Mumbai-based research group and think tank that investigates structural governance, economic, and institutional questions in India. The forum combines economics, law, public administration, computer science, and statistics to build empirical evidence and open research infrastructure. Its key research verticals include state capability, judicial mechanics and court data analysis, Union and State debt sustainability, household finance, power sector transition, and computational public policy tools. ### Youth Conservation Action Network (YouCAN) - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/youth-conservation-action-network-youcan - **Source URL**: https://youcan.in/ - **Kind**: Organisation - **Topics**: Environment, Climate, Water, Education - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Location**: Coonoor, Tamil Nadu - **Summary**: Fellowships and nature education to build a new generation of community-rooted environmental educators. - **Notes**: YouCAN runs fellowships and nature education programmes to build a new generation of community-rooted environmental educators. Its approach centres on experiential learning and mentorship to grow conservation leadership. ### YouthPower India - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/youthpower-india - **Source URL**: https://youthpower.in - **Kind**: Dashboard - **Topics**: Education, Labour, Economy - **Geography**: India - **Licence**: Licence unclear - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: District-level dashboard of youth opportunity in India, tracking jobs, education, and skilling indicators across 800+ districts - **Notes**: YouthPower India publishes district-level rankings and trend views for youth employment, education, and skilling across India. It is useful for quickly identifying high- and low-performing districts, and for comparing states on youth opportunity indicators in a format suitable for policy and advocacy work. The site is a dashboard-style service rather than a downloadable microdata source; most use is for monitoring trends and supporting further data deep dives from official sources. ### Zotero - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/zotero - **Source URL**: https://www.zotero.org/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Education, Technology - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (AGPL v3) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Free, open-source reference manager — collect, organise, cite, and share research sources, with browser integration and collaborative group libraries - **Notes**: Zotero is the essential reference management tool for researchers — it captures citations from websites, journal databases, and library catalogues with a single click, organises them into collections, and generates formatted bibliographies in any citation style. For Indian researchers, Zotero's value goes beyond convenience: it enables building shared group libraries for research teams, annotating PDFs with notes, and automatically extracting metadata from Indian publications that use standard identifiers. The tool is free and open-source, developed by the Corporation for Digital Scholarship. It syncs across devices and integrates with Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice. The Zotero Connector browser extension works with most Indian journal and government websites. ### Zulip - **Entry Page**: https://soochi.fyi/e/zulip - **Source URL**: https://zulip.com/ - **Kind**: Tool - **Topics**: Technology, Media - **Geography**: Global, India - **Licence**: Open licence (Apache-2.0) - **Cost**: Free - **Summary**: Open-source, topic-based threaded team chat platform designed to organize conversations and prevent information loss in distributed teams - **Notes**: Zulip is an open-source team collaboration and chat application that combines the real-time presence of chat with the organized threading model of email. Every channel in Zulip is subdivided into distinct topics, allowing team members to follow, catch up on, and search relevant discussions without getting overwhelmed by a continuous stream of unthreaded messages. Because it prevents conversation fragmentation and context loss, Zulip is especially popular among open-source software communities, scientific research collectives, and distributed civil society organisations operating across multiple time zones. It can be self-hosted on standard Linux servers.